Originally Posted by
Lake1952
It did descend to within 70 feet of the tower elevation, and it wasn't far from directly overflying the tower. There is no minimizing this event...like the close call runway incursions of a year ago, another narrowly missed disaster!
Yeah, I initially thought, "Go around in crappy weather, so what? Media hype." But when you look at the actual deviation and the fact that the crew really didn't realize how far to the right of the centerline that they actually were, it's bad.
Juan Browne has a very-good, non-dramatic video just out that lays it all out, and I commend it. That's like more than 3 dots deviation off centerline, so I'd be inclined to be judgy, but out of respect to a a generally-excellent pilot group, I will wait and be interested to see how this all happened.