surely the pilot had the option of diverting
Its a good point - however i think someone may have mentioned that the crew may have entered the hold for 20 minutes after making their 2nd go-around (wait until conditions improve as conditions at alternate advised as not much better)? Which could of then resulted in a possible low fuel scenario...
...as Andrasz (szia Andrasz, hogy vagy?) suggests this may have resulted in a CFIT (due to pressures of running out of fuel?) or it could have been fuel starvation & engine failure which might have been mishandled resulting in inversion and impact.