Framer
I don't hang my hat on the rules keeping me safe, you will find no such comment in my posts. Although rules and sop's are a pretty good start, once or twice in your flying lifetime you will be forced to break the rules.
You do not seem to understand. Virgin was not going to do a missed approach, neither was qantas. You don't embark on a deliberate descent below the minima if you intend to go around. Neither manoeuvre was less or more dangerous than the other, both carry risk, considerable risk, both break the law, one is wholly justified, 100% justified, the other was not. One crew carefully thought out the process, the other did not.
Simple isn't it?
Say after me, " if I deliberately break the rules, I will have a watertight reason."
Go on its not that hard