The track log is from the flight number you provided. I did forget to mention that the times are listed as eastern time zone (this is clearly listed on the track log.)
And I'm looking at the same flight for the 5th, and you are wrong. Granted that your flight took off at a faster speed, however you have to consider how heavy was your aircraft at takeoff vs that other flight. If it didn't have as many passengers and baggage it will accelerate faster.
Other than that, your flight climbed at a more gradual rate, and in fact took 1 minute longer to reach 30,000. Your flight had a max altitude of 39,000 feet. The other 41,000. This would be the decision of air traffic control.
The fact of the matter is that when your aircraft did it's 9,000 feet drop it still had 19,000+ feet below it. You also were at 1,500 feet when the go around happened. That's actually pretty high for the point of a go around. Usually it's while on short final, about 500 feet or less off the ground. And if a go around is done, it's not a safety issue itself. throttles forward, landing gear up, pull up and go around.
The whole underlying issue here is that you have never worked in aviation (I assume you would have pointed that out by now). I have. So you analogy of whipping off the expressway at 85 MPH is quite misguided.
Even if you fly VERY regularly the chances of you actually being in a go around are very slim. And I think you are very out of line to title your post that you almost crashed, when in fact you were nowhere near crashing, and the track log proves that. It might have been scary to you, as you said it's a perception thing, but the fact is your takeoff was not that eventful according to the numbers, and the quick drop in altitude immediately following a sudden ascent indicates that TCAS went off.
Your plane was late. All of 12 minutes. Sorry, but there is no way that any pilot is going to fly like that just because they are 12 minutes late. It wouldn't matter if they wanted to. They can only fly so fast at each stage of the flight, and that is dictated to them by air traffic control.
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