can happen during the day in white out conditions too...
Can happen in the most innocuous of conditions to very experienced aviators.
Test pilot was up in a Vampire on a beautiful day. Come time to land the sole weather impediment for a thousand miles was a single thunderstorm bearing down on the field. Lost sight of the landing enviroment on short, short final when flying into the rain shaft and overshot. Somatogravic raised its head and aircraft impacted some distance to the left of the runway. Survived but confined to a wheelchair.