twice on the same flight we were coming into Savannah and it was very foggy. The first time we hit the wheels touched down and then we went right back up, circled around a few times then did it again this time we got down to just a few feet off the runway and he pulled up again. Third time was the charm.

Had to do a go around again coming into Traverse City MI.

Wasn't in the plane but I saw this one:
I used to work at Beltline and 635 in Irving. our building was in the landing path of the easternmost runway at D/FW. My cube backed up to the windows of the Northern wall so I could see planes come in all day long.
One afternoon I just happened to turn around and out of the window I see a big jet liner peel up and left over the Irving water tower about 400 yards from where I was. I thought 'OH S@%T' but apparently said it loud enough for everyone around me to hear. When my Manager looked at me he looked out the window and saw what I saw. Then everyone heard the engines screaming.

Aborted take off out of Huntsville just at lift off. Worst flight was in to Toledo with winds gusting off lake Erie right at the threshold. I could look almost straight down at the runway. Thought the wing was going to touch for sure. Did have an aborted landing in Cessna 8 passenger jet going in to Boaz Al. due to a German shepherd on the runway. Too many bad experiences flying to list. At times I flew 80% of weeks in year. Sometimes on short notice. President called me the "Master Troubleshooter"

Over my career as a professional roadie, I think it was 5 times.

1. Aircraft ahead did not clear run way fast enough.
2. Crossing traffic on run way (I think that was the explanation)
3. Abort due to wind shear warning (twice). These are the fun ones.
4. Cross winds on approach at Lubbock on one of those little turbo prop puddle jumpers. The pilot tried but failed to beat the impending dust storm. We diverted back to Abilene and waited it out.

Sorry, but I don’t understand the problem.

A go around is a controlled, safe maneuver.

Look on the positive side. You paid for an airplane ride...now you get ten more minutes and NO additional charge. Be happy about it.

Agreed.

Who do you get back in front of for the new approach?

Depends on the amount of traffic at the airport. It is quite a challenge for ATC to sequence you back in.

Depends on the amount of traffic at the airport. It is quite a challenge for ATC to sequence you back in.

Mexicana flying into Guadulahara Mexico. aborted first landing, then did a hard touch and go to make sure gear was locked down then landed. Very scary.
We were heading to Ixtapa and after they checked our tourista cards they tried to put us back on the same plane.
Needless to say everyone protested and decided to wait several hours for a new plane.

Correction it was Mexicana Airlines. Last time I used them aso!

Not an abort landing, but scary. I was 15 and in Civil Air Patrol in San Antonio. I was learning how to fly a Cessna. I hear ATC come on the radio and say something and the pilot just saying, OH SH!T and just nose dives for what seemed forever. Then I look up and see what was happening. Big ole C-5 Galaxy was coming up behind us. That thing created some nasty turbulence. After we landed, I changed my shorts.

I rode a tanker out of panama that had max fuel. it used every foot of that runway to get up.

I used to be the ops officer for 5he tanker operation out of Panama.

Last trip in Philippines last year, I was traveling to Palawan and landing at Busuanga airport. We circled a few times went down to land and all of sudden it clouds up and we were about 5 feet from landing and he pulled up and circled about 20 minutes until clouds cleared and finally was able to land. Airport was in between a few mountains.

Last year I was flying to Hong Kong and pilot pulled up at last moment and circled and landed, heard there was some type of debris on the runway, that was pretty exciting.

was in one, in a military plane, headed into Midway, in the Pacific, , , that's a scary slim island.