{"id":221854,"date":"2026-04-05T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=221854"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:23:26","slug":"the-go-around-aviations-most-dangerous-safe-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/the-go-around-aviations-most-dangerous-safe-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Go-Around: Aviation&#8217;s Most Dangerous Safe Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;margin:0 0 24px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\">\n<thead><tr><th colspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#1a1a2e;color:#fff;padding:12px 16px;text-align:left;font-size:16px\">Quick Facts<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;width:35%\">What It Is<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Aborting an approach and climbing away instead of landing<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">When It's Required<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Unstable approach, runway not in sight at minimums, traffic on runway, wind shear, ATC instruction<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Accident Factor<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">~83% of approach-and-landing accidents involve a failure to go around (Flight Safety Foundation)<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Go-Around Rate<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Only 3% of unstable approaches result in a go-around \u2014 97% of pilots press on<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Most Common Error<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Failing to add full power immediately \u2014 half-measures kill<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Who Needs This<\/td><td style=\"padding:10px 16px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee\">Every pilot \u2014 from students to airline captains. The go-around is the most under-practised manoeuvre in aviation<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1344304664  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ea\/American_757_on_final_approach_at_St_Maarten_Airport.jpg\/960px-American_757_on_final_approach_at_St_Maarten_Airport.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing 757 on final approach at St Maarten Airport\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An airliner on short final at St. Maarten. Every approach carries the possibility that landing isn't the right call \u2014 and the go-around is the one manoeuvre that can save you. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every pilot learns the go-around on day one. Almost none of them practise it enough. And when the moment comes \u2014 the runway disappearing in fog, a deer on the centreline, a gust shoving you sideways at fifty feet \u2014 the pilots who hesitate are the ones who make the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The go-around is the safest decision a pilot can make. It is also, statistically, the most dangerous manoeuvre in the approach-and-landing phase. That paradox kills people every year. Here's why \u2014 and how to make sure it doesn't kill you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Numbers Are Brutal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Flight Safety Foundation, approximately 83% of approach-and-landing accidents involve a failure to execute a go-around. The pilot saw the signs \u2014 too fast, too high, too far off centreline \u2014 and pressed on anyway. The industry calls it \"continuation bias,\" and it is the single most lethal habit in aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flip side is almost as alarming. Studies show that only about 3% of unstable approaches result in a go-around. That means 97% of the time, when the approach isn't meeting stabilised criteria, the pilot lands anyway. Most of the time, it works out. Sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't, the consequences are catastrophic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes this so dangerous isn't the manoeuvre itself \u2014 it's the transition. One second you're descending, configured to land, eyes outside, mentally committed to touching down. The next second you need full power, a positive climb rate, gear up, flaps retracting, and a completely new mental picture. That cognitive shift, under stress, at low altitude, is where pilots get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Five Mistakes That Kill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Not adding full power immediately.<\/strong> This is the big one. Half-throttle go-arounds are the leading cause of go-around accidents. When you decide to go around, shove the throttle to the wall. Every second of hesitation is altitude you don't have. In a single-engine trainer like a Cessna 172, this means full throttle. In a jet, it means TOGA (Takeoff\/Go-Around) thrust. No half-measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Pitching up too aggressively.<\/strong> Full power doesn't mean full nose-up. Pitch to the initial climb attitude \u2014 typically about 7-10 degrees nose up in a light aircraft \u2014 and let the power do the work. Yanking the nose up at low speed is a recipe for a stall, and a stall at 200 feet is not survivable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Forgetting the flaps.<\/strong> Landing flaps create enormous drag. Once you're climbing, you need to retract them \u2014 but not all at once. Take out one notch at a time. Dumping full flaps in one motion can cause a momentary sink that puts you into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1849155307  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/28\/Cessna_172_landing_at_SXM.jpg\/960px-Cessna_172_landing_at_SXM.jpg\" alt=\"Cessna 172 on approach to land\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Cessna 172 \u2014 the world's most common training aircraft \u2014 on approach. Student pilots practise the go-around, but rarely enough. The manoeuvre demands full power, controlled pitch, and immediate reconfiguration. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Letting the runway hypnotise you.<\/strong> Once you've decided to go around, stop looking at the runway. Your eyes should be on the airspeed indicator, the attitude indicator, and the altimeter. The runway is behind you now \u2014 psychologically, you need to leave it there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Deciding too late.<\/strong> The best go-around is the one you start early. If you're not stabilised at 500 feet AGL on an instrument approach (or 300 feet on a visual approach in a light aircraft), go around. Don't wait to see if it \"works out.\" The pilots who die are the ones who gave themselves one more chance at 100 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Pilots Don't Go Around<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The psychology is simple. A go-around feels like failure. You've flown the approach, briefed the landing, maybe told your passengers you'd be on the ground in two minutes. Now you have to climb away, re-enter the pattern, and try again. In an airline cockpit, a go-around means delays, extra fuel burn, and a conversation with dispatch. For a student pilot, it feels like admitting you can't land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That's exactly backwards. A go-around is the most professional thing a pilot can do. Airlines track go-around rates as a safety metric \u2014 not because they want fewer of them, but because they want more. Every captain who goes around is demonstrating judgment. Every pilot who presses on through an unstable approach is gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The antidote is practice. Go-arounds should be rehearsed on every training flight, from every configuration \u2014 full flaps, partial flaps, no flaps. The manoeuvre should be so automatic that when the moment comes, your hands move before your brain catches up. Power up. Pitch. Clean up. Climb. That sequence needs to be muscle memory, not a decision tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1693757804  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7f\/Aircraft_lining_up_on_final_approach_Runway_27_Boston.jpg\/960px-Aircraft_lining_up_on_final_approach_Runway_27_Boston.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Aircraft lined up on final approach to Boston runway\" style=\"display:block;width:100%!important;max-width:100%!important;height:auto!important;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Traffic stacking up on final approach. In busy airspace, going around means re-sequencing with other aircraft \u2014 one more reason pilots feel pressure to land, and one more reason they shouldn't. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:22px\">The One Rule That Saves Lives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here it is: if you're thinking about going around, go around. The decision to continue an approach should be active and deliberate. If doubt creeps in \u2014 about the wind, the speed, the glidepath, the runway environment \u2014 that doubt is your brain telling you something isn't right. Trust it. Push the throttle forward. Fly the go-around. Come back and try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No pilot has ever been fired for going around. Plenty have died for not doing it. The manoeuvre takes thirty seconds. The decision takes one. Make it early, make it decisively, and make it every single time the approach doesn't feel right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The runway will still be there when you come back.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}.mf-faq-answer a{color:#5C91FF}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is a go-around in aviation?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>A go-around is the manoeuvre of aborting a landing approach and climbing away to try again rather than continuing to the runway. Pilots initiate one when the approach is unstable, the runway isn't in sight at minimums, there's traffic or wind shear, or air traffic control instructs it.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>When should a pilot go around?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>A pilot should go around whenever the approach is not stabilised \u2014 too fast, too high or off centreline \u2014 or when the runway is blocked, visibility drops below minimums, or wind shear threatens the landing. In short, any time a safe landing is in doubt.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why is the go-around considered dangerous?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Although it is a safety manoeuvre, the go-around demands an abrupt transition \u2014 from a descent configured to land to full power, a positive climb and a new mental picture in seconds. The most common fatal error is failing to apply full power immediately, a workload challenge akin to <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/night-carrier-landings-most-dangerous-routine-aviation\/\">night carrier landings<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is continuation bias?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Continuation bias is the tendency to press on with a landing despite warning signs that the approach is unstable. The Flight Safety Foundation found that roughly 83% of approach-and-landing accidents involve a failure to go around.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How often do pilots actually go around?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Only about 3% of unstable approaches result in a go-around, meaning pilots continue to land roughly 97% of the time even when criteria aren't met. 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