> In the minutes before flight 521 lined up to land, two flights were forced to abort their landings after encountering wind shear; however, they didn’t tell th

> In the minutes before flight 521 lined up to land, two flights were forced to abort their landings after encountering wind shear; however, they didn’t tell the controller their reasons for doing so, and the controller didn’t ask. The article isn't attempting to make a point here, but for anyone who is unaware, it is this way on purpose. It's not an accident or an oversight or a bad policy. It used to be that pilots had to justify doing a go-around. So in that critical moment, when the pilot is making the go-no-go decision, they're thinking about whether or not they can justify the go-around, not about whether or not the go-around is the right thing to do. There was a tendency for pilots to try to force a landing that just wasn't gonna happen and it resulted in more than a few disasters. So now the policy is to just do the right thing and the pilot doesn't have to explain, not to tower, not to management, not to anyone why they decided to go-around.