Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Procedure; Human Factors
While being vectored for the approach the Final Approach Controller left us high and gave us a short vector for the CANPA approach. While intercepting the localizer I realized that we were not tracking the localizer inbound. I verified the localizer frequency in both the active Nav 1 and Nav 2 frequencies. At this point the pilot flying (First Officer) disconnected the autopilot while we discussed the problem and began to mention the possibility of going around. The Tower Controller then gave us a low altitude alert. I told the Controller that we were correcting. At this point we made the decision to execute a go-around. We began the go-around and I told the Controller we were going around. Cause: Focusing too much on intercepting the course and not properly monitoring the approach. After experiencing this circumstance; I would ask for a longer approach where we didn't feel rushed to get down and get configured. If we had had another 3-5 miles on the approach I believe that we would not have had this problem.
We were left high and fast and were doing the CANPA approach to Runway 27 into SAN when the localizer didn't capture we got fixated on the green needles and were still descending. Approach came on and said we were low; turn to a heading; and we immediately executed the missed approach. We felt rushed and when the localizer didn't capture it created a snowball effect.
CRJ-700 flight crew reported while on approach to Runway 27 at SAN they deviated from the localizer during a rushed approach and were given a low altitude warning from ATC; which triggered a go-around.