Originally Posted by
Centaurus
It will be a long time before the full circumstances of this accident will be made public by the relevant State authorities. That said, reports appear to confirm the crew pressed on below the MDA in poor forward visibility caused by heavy rain showers. etc etc
I hear what you say. But the bottom line is, you get to the MAPT and you either have the required visual reference or you don't. The guy who is monitoring the approach is responsible for that call. If you have the required visual reference you can see where you're going and what's ahead of you and presumably therefore you don't fly it into the brine. If you don't have the required visual reference it gets called at that point and you execute the published missed. This whole unfortunate situation should have been resolved at 2.2nm from the runway with one of two standard calls "Visual, continue" or "Not visual, go around". There is no 3rd choice. You don't resolve it with both guys looking out the window through the pouring rain in search of a runway that should have been visible from a point well behind you.