barit 1
"not as dangerous as not going around".
In the real world perhaps. CAL proves otherwise.
Remember that 3 week old -400 that went "splash" the end of RWY 13 at Kai Tak after failing to go-around when he probably should have..
loss of life...two or three out of a relatively full ship, if I remember. Lucky.
Aircraft ended up with a few scratches and a dit damp, but HKCAB decided to blow the tail off (as it was limiting airport ops) and hence an expensive write off for CAL.
This may have promted a never before heard of "if in doubt..go-around culture at CAL" (perhaps with a "you better have a good excuse to save face" clause attached).
Then a few years later were a couple of identical A300-600 go around attempts in perfectly serviceable aircraft at NGO and TPE...loss of life...all on board (300ish in both cases).
I guess back then the training dept at CAL had failed to take note of that new ops philosophy and include go-arounds in the training...and from the way CALSAR puts it here, if onboard CAL he'd still rather take his chances in a slightly bent aircraft off the side/end than hear those donks spooling up at 500' .
And what happened in HNL?