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Air carrier landing ord was issued an ATC 'wind shear' alert; commenced a go around; climbing to the published missed approach altitude; then was issued lower by ATC; but overshot.

Narrative:

Tower issued a wind shear alert for runway 28 as we approached the final approach fix. We advised tower we were going around and started to climb to the missed approach altitude of 4;000 ft while continuing on the localizer. As we were approaching 3;000 ft; tower told us to maintain 3;000 ft and turn right to a heading. We overshot to around 3;100 ft before we could stop the climb.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier landing ORD was issued an ATC 'wind shear' alert; commenced a go around; climbing to the published missed approach altitude; then was issued lower by ATC; but overshot.

Narrative: Tower issued a wind shear alert for Runway 28 as we approached the final approach fix. We advised Tower we were going around and started to climb to the missed approach altitude of 4;000 FT while continuing on the localizer. As we were approaching 3;000 FT; Tower told us to maintain 3;000 FT and turn right to a heading. We overshot to around 3;100 FT before we could stop the climb.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.