Interesting that in this day & age with all the sophisticated gear on board the most basic thing about when flying a plane gets lost, situational awareness, something getting more & more 'lost' in it's own right!
You know how it is we have a high level of awareness whilst in IMC on the dials & doing what we are trained the most to do, fly way up there but when it comes to breaking out of cloud for Eg we seem to say/go phew glad that's over we are now visual...easy peezy we can relax...........well not so in this case & quite often to:-)
ATC often spoon feed these guys as they simply don't trust them especially CTA steps by way of height restrictions, & tracking IE vectors, the most basic of navigation. Sounds like they where being vectored & to report rwy 34 in sight. Looking around out the window it could easily be mistaken EN drome as Tulla as the rwy complex is similar (not identical though).
Sure ultimately the drivers are to blame Capt in particular but as a side subject here have we set ourselves up with a tool that leads us down the garden path? That tool being highly developed automation. (yes I now there are numerous threads on this subject but worth a mention here anyway)
We can make a 100 airframes all perfectly identical but can we make a 100 pilots the same? Now there lies a perplexing question & not even the most hideous phyco testing crap can guarantee anything these days as well trained, well checked & well respected pilots have simply flown into a mountain in a fully serviceable machine mostly 'cause they where suckered into it.
I've landed on the wrong Rwy at MB 100 yrs ago due circumstances that changed at the last minute, we are all human:-)
Wmk2