I'm going to second something Chris said, and that's about the winds. It's very possible that the winds were fluctuating. As the pilot started to touch down, they gusted. Cross winds are nothing to play with.
I've been in a few go arounds myself, and there is one that comes to mind. I was flying into Tampa. It was summer. Summer storms can be bad bad bad, and this was no exception. We came in, touched the runway, and the next thing you know the engines throttle up and around we went. The reason: Another airplane had just landed, and while it should have been clear from the runway, the tower wasn't sure.
Just to give you an idea of how bad it was, there are three bridges over Tampa Bay that you can see when flying into Tampa. You come in from the north, and make a U turn over the bay. Sometimes they go further south than other times, so you might not always go over all three. Anyway, I can very easily tell which is which. But in this case, all I could see was dim lights. I had no idea which bridge we were over.
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