Is it QANTAS's SOP's to make a mandatory climb to 5000' from a GPWS warning?
If the ATC instruction was to commence a missed approach due traffic and climb to 3000', why when a GPWS warning follows closey behind, does the crew think 3000' under radar control is not safe enough for us we are going to climb to 5000'?
The decision to climb to 5000' is the major contributing factor here.
RWY 23R must have been in use. Two jets from Oz arriving in AA would not cross paths with each other on RWY 05L as it is a straight in approach from the Tasman Sea. My understanding is the Air NZ jet was right hand downwind for RWY 23R (over the city sector) descending to 4000' when the QANTAS jet passed 1.5Nm behind on it's way to 5000'.
S2K