Originally Posted by Kenneth House
This seems a strange coincidence with the 1.3 nm distance from the TH to the I-BXO LOC.
You're grasping for reasons which don't exist. If the accident was due to confusion about DME readout and distance to the threshold, the accident would have taken place 1.3 nm *past* the threshold, right adjacent to the DME antenna. As has been pointed out several times before, interpreting the DME as distance to the threshold would have placed them higher, not lower. Alternately, if they were looking at an FMS displayed distance to the threshold, and thinking it was DME, 1.3 would be interpreted as being over the threshold, so the scenario would necessarily include a crew deciding to descend at the MAP instead of executing the missed approach, which is a bit implausible.