Interestingly there does not seem to be a lot of approach lighting to hit on this end of the runway. It does rather make you wonder why they were making a non precision approach close to or actually in the dark during a thunderstorm with the wind more or less cross when there is an ILS and much better lighting the other end. It may not have been completely night, but if it was raining or there was some low cloud that may have made the visual cues more difficult to see. There also seem to be similarities with Asiana in San Francisco. It is too early to say if overreliance on automatics played a role. But it is a fact that this kind of thing seems to be happening to them far too often and that here and in Kathmandu they have been extremely lucky nothing worse happened. Not saying that you shouldn't fly these kind of approaches. But the old saying about superior pilots avoiding situations where they have to demonstrate their superior ability springs to mind.
Last edited by lederhosen; 2nd Feb 2016 at 15:48.