Narrative:

On short final the flaps stopped between 15 and 20 with a te flap disagree warning light. There were no unusual controls feel issues. I executed a go around at about 1;000 AGL and the first officer announced our go around to tower with a comment that we were flying the published missed. Tower gave us a heading and altitude and then began '20 questions' about the go around. What was the reason? How long do you need to hold? How many people on board? How much fuel? These questions; although important; were very distracting and took the pilot not flying out of the cockpit at a critical time. As we leveled at FL50; we ran the appropriate checklist and the light was no longer illuminated. We reselected 20 flaps with no problem; lowered the gear and requested a new approach. We had a minimum of 20 flaps now for landing and were in good shape. The relief pilot kept the fight attendants and the passengers informed. The first officer advised the tower that we were not declaring and emergency. Landing was normal using 30 degrees of flaps.it would appear that tower declared an emergency for me. The next day the purser told me that an on board supervisor called her and asked if there was an evacuation with slides. That was the first I had heard of a possible issue. I received no information from flight operations; but a flight manager later informed me upon our return that he did not want to wake me during my rest period.I later asked the mechanic who worked on the flaps what he found and he said there were no faults on the flap computer and after exercising the flaps several times; the aircraft was put back into service. He thinks that the timing of the flap extension was too slow and the computer stopped the extension.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B767-300 executed a go around and completed appropriate checklists to correct a TE FLAP DISAGREE EICAS message received during flap extension. A normal 30 flap landing ensued although ATC declared an emergency on their behalf. The Captain expressed concern about the numerous questions directed to them by ATC immediately following their go around that effectively removed the First Officer from his pilot not flying tasks.

Narrative: On short final the flaps stopped between 15 and 20 with a TE FLAP DISAGREE warning light. There were no unusual controls feel issues. I executed a go around at about 1;000 AGL and the First Officer announced our go around to Tower with a comment that we were flying the published missed. Tower gave us a heading and altitude and then began '20 questions' about the go around. What was the reason? How long do you need to hold? How many people on board? How much fuel? These questions; although important; were very distracting and took the pilot not flying out of the cockpit at a critical time. As we leveled at FL50; we ran the appropriate checklist and the light was no longer illuminated. We reselected 20 flaps with no problem; lowered the gear and requested a new approach. We had a minimum of 20 flaps now for landing and were in good shape. The Relief Pilot kept the fight attendants and the passengers informed. The First Officer advised the Tower that we were not declaring and emergency. Landing was normal using 30 degrees of flaps.It would appear that Tower declared an emergency for me. The next day the Purser told me that an on board supervisor called her and asked if there was an evacuation with slides. That was the first I had heard of a possible issue. I received no information from Flight Operations; but a Flight Manager later informed me upon our return that he did not want to wake me during my rest period.I later asked the mechanic who worked on the flaps what he found and he said there were no faults on the flap computer and after exercising the flaps several times; the aircraft was put back into service. He thinks that the timing of the flap extension was too slow and the computer stopped the extension.

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.