mingalababya asked
"could this be alleviated by technology? ie, have the aircraft's systems call for a go around when an unstablized approach and landing is detected"?
As it happened, last week's Flight International carried an article about Honeywell's ongoing development work on providing additional functionality to EGPWS. (see here
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...the-egpws.html)
To paraphrase the magazine, one mode suggested will have the system annunciate in a male voice "Too fast - too high" and, if the wayward approach continued below 400ft, the system would issue its final plea: "Unstable, unstable!" This warning would also appear in text on the multifunction display.
So yes, technology could help with this, and by the look of it, in the rather near future.