Date: 202201
Local time of day: 0001-0600
Location: ZZZ.Airport, US
Flight conditions: VMC
Light: Night
Aircraft: EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Operator: Air Carrier
Operating under: Part 121
Flight plan: IFR
Mission: Passenger
Flight phase: Initial Approach
Airspace: Class B ZZZ
ATC / advisory: Tower ZZZ
Aircraft component: Leading Edge Slat
Component problem: Malfunctioning
Reporter organization: Air Carrier
Reporter function: Captain; Pilot Flying
Reporter qualification: Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Human factors: Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness; Troubleshooting
Anomaly: Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Detector: Automation Aircraft Other Automation; Person Flight Crew
When detected: In-flight
Result: Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; General Maintenance Action
Contributing factors: Human Factors; Aircraft; Procedure
Primary problem: Aircraft

Narrative: While on approach to Runway XX at ZZZ upon gear down and flaps five selected we received an oral caution alarm. I the Flying Pilot immediately looked down with the corner of my eye and saw Amber dashes and 3 surrounded by Amber boxes on both slat/flap. I was expecting to see an EICAS message of slap or flat fail instead I saw wind shear fail and ground proximity fail. At this time I deviated from the normal go around procedures by hitting altitude hold. I told the First Officer the Non-Flying Pilot inform ATC we were going around. I might have the sequence wrong because everything happened fairly quick so I don't recall if at that point it is when the auto pilot and auto throttles fail or if ATC told us to climb a maintain 2;000 ft. came first.' Regardless that's when I hit TOGA the oral unit started going off stating go around throttles not in TOGA. My first concern was since I was now hand flying and we were only a few hundred feet from 2;000 ft. I intentionally held back the thrust levers so we wouldn't go through the altitude.\n\nI will admit I got a little bit behind the power curve because first I was having to hand fly the go around and second I was confused why a flap/slat fail message was not showing up when we had amber dashes and #3 in boxes and the EICAS messages we were receiving had nothing to do with a slat flaps fail. This caused me to delay the standard call outs; when we were instructed by ATC to climb and maintain 3;000 ft. The Non-Flying Pilot was a great help and assisted in the stander call out and as we cleaned up the aircraft and all the messages and amber boxes went away.''\nSince there were no more messages and therefore 'no QRH checklist to run we circled around executed another approach configured early and the second approach and landing was uneventful.




Synopsis: Captain reported EICAS messages did not match the diagnosed Flap/Slat systems failure and elected to perform a go around. After retracting the flaps/slats; the EICAS messages disappeared and a normal approach and landing were made.