"(The information) is still a bit vague. There's talk of an approach, an abort and a second approach that failed. Right now, you have to be cautious until all this information has been checked."
If this does turn out to be correct then I wonder if there might be similarities to the Gulf Air A320 loss at Bahrain in August 2000? I'm not suggesting that anything other than a proper go around procedure was followed here but turning away from land towards the ocean in poor visibility with no visual reference points might have lead to spatial disorientation.