B737-800
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Diverted; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; General Declared Emergency
Aircraft
Flaps split while configuring for landing [somewhere] less than 30 degrees. Executed a missed approach and declared an emergency with ATC; and diverted and landed uneventfully. Unable to retract flaps on missed approach.It was a repeated item in the logbook and signed off.
B737-800 flight crew experienced a flap asymmetry during approach; flaps would not retract during go-around. Eventually diverted and landed in emergency condition.