Originally Posted by Zanshin
The FAA statistics show that the odds of an accident or incident go way up on a second landing attempt after a missed approach.
Agreed but to try and reassure nervous flyers the FAA (NTSB?) stats are probably dominated by private flying incidents not commercial air passenger ones and AFAIK no paying passenger has ever been hurt in a landing accident at Juliana (although Westjet came pretty close in 2017).
Dave.