Narrative:

On arrival; the first officer (first officer) asked me if he could hand fly from 10;000 feet down to landing. He has been off on a medical. He is fully qualified; so I said yes. Everything was normal until we intercepted the localizer xyl. We were at 190 knots and ATC asked us to slow to 170 knots. Configuration was gear up and flaps 15. We had just intercepted the GS at approximately 5000 feet and not slowing. I told the first officer that this airplane was hard to slow; so we put the gear down. ATC asked us to slow to 160 knots and we selected flaps 20. At approximately 4000 feet; ATC said we were too close to traffic ahead and needed to break us out. He said maintain 3000 feet and turn left to 270. At this point; I used some poor phraseology. I said let's treat this like a go around. I was thinking; gear up; set missed approach altitude (3000); heading select 270; set speed; and clean up on schedule. I should have said; level at 3000; and turn to 270. The first officer heard go around and pushed to take off go around button hand flying in a descent. The jet accelerates very fast at go around thrust in a descent. I put the gear up and went to flaps 5; 1; up. The [relief pilots] and I were saying 'speed'. We had a flap over speed of 262 knots from flaps 1 to 0. I took control of the plane and slowed to 250 and turned on the auto pilot. Landed on xyl. Made a logbook entry about the flap over speed.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported a mis-communication that led to a flap over speed after an ATC directed break out from the approach.

Narrative: On arrival; the First Officer (FO) asked me if he could hand fly from 10;000 feet down to landing. He has been off on a medical. He is fully qualified; so I said yes. Everything was normal until we intercepted the LOC XYL. We were at 190 Knots and ATC asked us to slow to 170 Knots. Configuration was gear up and flaps 15. We had just intercepted the GS at approximately 5000 feet and not slowing. I told the FO that this airplane was hard to slow; so we put the gear down. ATC asked us to slow to 160 Knots and we selected flaps 20. At approximately 4000 feet; ATC said we were too close to traffic ahead and needed to break us out. He said maintain 3000 feet and turn left to 270. At this point; I used some poor phraseology. I said let's treat this like a GO AROUND. I was thinking; gear up; set missed approach altitude (3000); heading select 270; Set Speed; and clean up on schedule. I should have said; level at 3000; and turn to 270. The FO heard GO AROUND and pushed to Take Off Go Around button hand flying in a descent. The jet accelerates very fast at GO AROUND thrust in a descent. I put the gear up and went to flaps 5; 1; up. The [relief pilots] and I were saying 'SPEED'. We had a flap over speed of 262 knots from flaps 1 to 0. I took control of the plane and slowed to 250 and turned on the Auto Pilot. Landed on XYL. Made a logbook entry about the Flap Over Speed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.