Plenty of aircraft were going missed from upto 4 miles to touchdown.
Interesting. With wind from that direction at MAN you need to get pretty near to the ground where it quite often calms down if you want to make a serious attempt at landing. (Don't get me wrong, no criticism of someone canning it at 4nm) We did so at midnight and it wasn't pretty all the way to the last 100' when it just steadied enough to be acceptable. Only other 'better' option at that time was LPL where it was howling, but only 10 degrees off the runway.
PP