why is it everytime there is an aborted landing the first thing that pops into peoples heads is a missed approach? Thats almost never the case with a commercial jet. The fact that you said the weather wasnt that great is a key piece of a puzzle. I havent but I know some one that was on a flight that aborted twice in ANC before diverting to FAI due to weather. Ive had 2 aborted landings in FAI, one for a moose and one for a bush pilot that decided togo puttering out onto the runway when we were on final
Technically, isn't an aborted landing a missed approach?
I don't understand why some people view a missed approach as a bad thing. There are numerous things that can go wrong on an approach, from things as mundane as landing traffic taking too long to exit the runway, to low visibility, to being too high/low/fast/slow, to mechanical failure.
The entire point of going around is to restablish in a stable configuration and land safely. That's it. There's nothing bad about it. Would people prefer that pilots get "go fever" and try to land in marginal conditions? Go around, reconfigure for landing, and shoot it again.