St. Maarten Private Eye

1000’s of aircraft go around on approach all over the world every year most of them because the runway is not cleared yet. It is not a big thing. We could write pages and pages about this but it will be difficult to convince you as the obvious laymen. I have 30 years of experience flying commercial aircraft and what I see on the video is not an emergency. Here is a podcast of a BA Captain explaining what a go around is.

Let me add a little thing about decision height:

"…decision height is the limit to which a pilot may descend before deciding to continue his approach to a landing by means of visual aids and cues, or to execute a missed approach…This is not to say that the pilot waits until he arrives at the decision height before deciding to land or to go-around. The decision making process begins at the time the approach is initiated and continues while the approach is in progress… It therefore becomes evident that while the decision height is an exact point in space at which the pilot makes an operational decision, the information he requires to make this decision has been accumulating for a considerable time, and it would be incorrect to assume that all aspects, of this decision must be formulated and assessed at one critical instant on the approach"..

Go arounds are performed before or at decision height. It is a standard safety procedure at a pre calculated point performed at safe altitudes and distances. That is why we have pilots in the cockpit. This was a normal go around because the runway was not cleared on time (taxiing of the Corsair took longer than expected) and the KL was either instructed to go around or made their own call on time. In either case it is not something to be upset about.