It will be interesting to see what the AAIB have to say on this one as I think most of us here are thinking "there but for the grace of God go the rest of us".
But as an aside, what are the thoughts on the use of autopilots in this environment.
On the one side autopilots reduce work load and is very good at doing what it is told to do. But at some point the aircraft has to be uncoupled to do the landing bit. How easy is that transition at say 300', 45kts at night with poor visual references? So is it better to have more stick time to get your "hand in" for the landing, or is it better to let George fly until the last minute?
At least one manufacturer of modern machines is insistant that their aircraft are flown coupled at all times (quite how this can be achieved offshore remains a mystery to me). So do we disobey the manufacturers recommendations to keep our hand in or do we go by the book?