DozyWannabe
The town of San Carlos has a small airport (KSQL) nearby, and it's a designated relief airfield for traffic for SFO below a certain size (5,670 kg max gross) - it can't take a 737 - any locals know what the reference may have been?
Listening to it again, it sounds more like Skyhawk 737, which is probably just a Cessna 172 Skyhawk with the tail number 737. The low level reported and the position would make sense from what you've said.
Legomaniac
Yes, it WAS the United flight who called the go-around everyone heard on the tower tapes!
Thanks for that. Would love to hear a cleaned up version of the call to see if there was more to it than a general call of 'Go Around' and to see when it was made with reference to the accident aircraft's profile. It's all after the fact of course and won't change anything, I am just wondering if it would have made any difference if acted on, or if it was too late anyway.