Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
OK, thanks for clarifying that. Then permit me to ask again the second part of my original question, that you haven't answered:
Where and when did the crew issue that denial?
You do know what "deny" means, don't you?
As I have posted earlier:
* the crew queried 'something on the runway' :
* tower says no its clear all yours,
* the crew initiated a go around because they see things on the 'runway' that do not look quite right;
* Tower commands a go around;
* Crew responds we are in the go around - and are probably thinking - "we were right tower screwed up and there was traffic on the runway"
I doubt that the misconception was noted indeed it may have continued until the crew shut down. So there was no reason to 'deny' anything - it was a tower screw up and that was why they were being asked to call tower. Why should they protect the CVR if they thought it was a tower screw up?
It will be instructive to find out when the crew became aware that they had actually made an approach to the taxiway. I suspect their first response was "no - we made both approaches to 28R!"