lifeafteraviation:
What you should be doing is waiting to find out more information and learn from their mistake so you don't repeat it. I personally think you're barking up the wrong tree here in your analysis.
I'm sure we will learn something from their obvious screw-up. Having said that a Part 121 operator has a higher duty of standards and care than the folks flying 787 parts into Kansas.
Part 121 pilots are required to be airport qualified for every Regular, Provisional, and Refueling airport set forth in their ops specs. Perhaps SWA's flight ops management shares some of the blame if their airport qualifications program is inadequate. That we don't know but I hope we eventually find out about their program.
Also, their HUD SOPs. Also, their requirements, or lack thereof, of using the pertinent instrument approach procedure as a backup to a visual approach.
I don't buy tickets for myself or my family on cargo-hauling 747s. I do on SWA and other Part 121 airlines. I know the basic rules for landing on the correct runway at the correct airport quite well. I lived under those rules for 27 years, and they remain unchanged.
These folks came within a couple of hundred feet, or so, of going down that 40' embankment. That gives me pause for reflection as a member of the airline flying public.