ACR INITIATED A GAR AFTER EXPERIENCING PROBS WITH WINDS; AND TFC. CAPT HAD CONFRONTATION WITH A PAX (NTSB SAFETY OFFICER) WHO STATED THAT CAPT'S PA REGARDING THE SIT; WAS A LIE.

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WE WERE VECTORED FOR A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 23. WINDS WERE RPTED AS 320 DEGS AT 15-24 KTS. WE WERE ADVISED OF TFC TO FOLLOW. A STROBE LIGHT WAS SEEN IN THE DISTANCE BUT I HESITATED TO NOTIFY APCH CTL UNTIL A MORE POSITIVE IDENT COULD BE MADE. AS A RESULT; APCH GAVE US A TURN AWAY FROM THE RWY. AS THE TFC CAME CLOSER AND MADE A TURN TOWARDS THE RWY WE WERE CONVINCED THIS WAS THE TFC; CALLED IT AND THE RWY IN SIGHT; AND A VISUAL APCH CLRNC WAS GIVEN. WE TURNED BACK TOWARDS THE RWY TO GET LINED UP AND DSNDED TO GET ON PROPER GLIDE PATH. THE TFC NOW WAS CLRED TO CIRCLE AND LAND ON RWY 32. THE TWR KEPT US INFORMED OF HIS POS AND GAVE MANY WIND RPTS. SOME ATTN WAS GIVEN TO THIS TFC WHICH DISTRACTED FROM A DEMANDING APCH IN GUSTY XWIND CONDITIONS. THE FO CROSSED THE THRESHOLD SLIGHTLY HIGH AND A STRONG GUST CAUSED THE ACFT TO BALLOON UPWARDS. THE FO INITIATED A MISSED APCH. THIS WAS THE CORRECT AND PROPER ACTION. I WAS VERY BUSY WITH CHKLISTS AND COM AND COULD NOT DO A PA TO THE PAX UNTIL WELL DOWNWIND. IN THE INTEREST OF BREVITY AND TO CALM ANY APPREHENSIONS THE PAX HAD ABOUT THE GAR; I SIMPLY SAID 'THERE WAS A TFC CONFLICT AND THAT WE WOULD LAND IN SEVERAL MINS; AND THANKS FOR THEIR PATIENCE.' AS THE PAX GOT OFF THE ACFT; ONE ASKED IF WE WOULD FILE A NEAR MISS RPT. I SAID NO; SINCE THERE WAS NEVER A CLOSE CONFLICT FOR THAT. LATER; AS I WAS GETTING INTO A HOTEL VAN; AN AGENT INFORMED ME THAT A PAX WAS FILING A COMPLAINT AND A RPT. I WENT TO TALK TO HIM AND HE WAS THE SAME MAN WHO STOPPED BY THE COCKPIT. HE IDENTED HIMSELF AS AN NTSB SAFETY OFFICER. HE SAID I LIED ABOUT THE GARS DUE TO TFC; SAID I SHOULD HAVE SAID THE WINDS WERE TOO STRONG AND I WAS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THEM AND SAID OUR AIRLINES ENCOURAGES PLTS TO LIE TO PAX AND THIS WAS UNSAFE. NO AMOUNT OF CONVERSATION COULD CHANGE HIS MIND AND HE WAS FILING A RPT. HE SAID THE GAR WAS CORRECT. HIS OBJECTION WAS WITH THE PA TO THE PAX.