1) Visibility was terribly all around the valley below the Airport. I can only imagine how poor it was at the airport.
2) However it was improving significently all morning and quite quickly.
3) Reports here are that the pilot only made his third approach after a twenty minute wait - all the posts seem to have assumed the three approaches were in a short time period. At the time of the accident the fog had cleared fully in the city and a significent improvement in the area would have been evident. At the airport though it obviously was not so.
Can somebody clarify if it is possible when looking down through fog from above for visibility to be better than when looking ahead through it?
There has been mention that the aircraft landed on the runway but rather than continuing straight along ran at an angle and catapulated when the wheels hit the rain sodden grass. There has been so much rain in the area recently that I would imagine that it would have just hit mud if it ran off the runway.