Originally Posted by
dhuey
It's looking that way. It's hard to see how we don't have an epic disaster without UA1 pilot's urgent message to the tower, and the tower's quick "go around" order.
Except according to the NTSB investigators the AC pilots initiated the go-around several seconds before being told to do so by the tower. Did they do that because they overheard UA1 or because they saw another plane (PAL?) turn on its landing lights or was it their spydey senses - TBD.