Is there any standard procedure for crews to inform ATC of a Go-around immediately the decision is made, or is the advice to 'Aviate, navigate, communicate'? If the MON crew had said they were going around at the time they increased thrust ( passing heading 077) the controller would have been able to give them a safe heading to pass to the north of the Rock. As it was, the first the controller knew of the Go-around decision was approximately ten seconds later, when he asked if the crew were still visual. By this stage the aircraft had turned further right to head directly for the Rock, and the stage was set for potential disaster. Thank goodness Mr Boeing put some good beefy engines on his 757's.
Incidentally, the AAIB report paints a rather benign picture of the terrain situation when it says simply that the lowest altitude of the aircraft over the land was 2,100ft, with the highest point on land being 1420ft. In reality it was a !!!!!ty night, an aircraft had got itself pointed straight at the Rock two miles ahead, and starting from an altitude of 550 feet it was just a question of faith as to whether the climb gradient was going to be steeper than the slope of the west face of the Rock. It was not a pleasant experience - the talkdown controller said he thought he was talking to a dead man.