I'm fairly surprised the Tower controller did not notice the misalignment. Quote:
Well do you know exactly visual perspective from the tower?
Stop doing that RON you'll give yourself a headache.
It is already a fact the crew made a mistake, however sometimes someone else can stop the holes lining up. If the tower can see the runway, an aircraft lined up incorrectly will look wrong to the controller. It certainly isn't the controllers fault, and indeed many controllers have saved crews bacon in the past.
You said that you are surprised and I just gave you one of the possible reasons why controller didn't notice it. I'm sure if he noticed it he would challenged the crew.
If we look at google earth Tower is almost 2000m from threshold RWY 29.
Also for some other posters, Taxiway displaced some 180m north from RWY not 50m. Measuring with google earth taxiway seems to be narrower than RWY and measures about 35m wide.
Whilst, for the pretenders, it is easy to imagine that a crew has all the time in the world to peruse the runway in detail before landing, in reality "the office" is moving at 3 miles/min and you are very busy heads-down running check-lists, extending flaps, and monitoring speeds etc.
Well, I don't think they suppose to be heads down on a visual approach do they? 3 miles/min on short final,maybe time to go around.
I also have a question could the sun blind them so strong they weren't able to see any markings?
Otherwise strange to aim at "RWY" with no touchdown zone markings
Here is also a link on approach to RWY 29:[YOUTUBE]