BEagle,
One might consider that the NW crew was just slightly fatigued, so made a stupid mistake.
Now it would seem to me that
if they indeed were slightly fatigued,
all the more reason to use an instrument approach...and not auto-everything is necessary either, hand flown will do nicely.
One has to wonder...why are the same (more or less) classic mistakes still made on a regular basis? Wrong runwany, wrong
airport ...good grief.