Above Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon, in the final stage of the landing of flight ASL36H, side winds became stronger than safe. The captain of the Air Serbia Airbus A319-100 (registration YU-APE) made a decision in a few seconds that most passengers won't understand: go-around. Aborted landing, engines to full power, climbing back up.

This is neither an incident nor a plane error. It's standard procedure for pilots who have the training - and every pilot flying for a scheduled airline has it. It's used when something in the final seconds isn't right: a wind shear, another aircraft on the runway, too much fuel, a technical signal. The simple solution - don't land, go up, try again.

The drama here is not in the manoeuvre but in the causes. The pre-flight weather report for Lisbon did not predict such crosswinds, or at least not at that stage of the landing. Airports are prepared for such conditions, but the pilot has to feel the moment - and to react before the plane starts moving unsteadily over the runway.

For passengers? A few seconds of adrenaline. The plane "falls downwards," and then suddenly climbs steeply. It's unusual, it's not fun - but it's the reason the standards for pilot training are so strict. A pilot at Lufthansa, Air France, or anywhere else who just stepped into the cockpit after 1,500 hours of training would apply the same procedure.

The plane safely returned to the air, and once conditions improved - it landed. Passports, luggage, arrival without a story. And one story about a pilot who, according to his colleagues, "reacted perfectly." That, fundamentally, is what pilots do when they're seriously trained - not to react well in an accident, but to leave no room for the accident to happen.