airbubba:
This reminds me of the UPS 1354 cargo crash where the vertical path was misconfigured on a non-precision approach, the pointer was pegged off the top of the screen and they flew into the ground short of the runway using vertical speed. Any semblance of a cross check or stable approach SOP would have saved them.
Had they not busted minimums, they could have followed the VGSI as required on the approach chart. That would have saved them, too.
Maybe 30 years ago in a 727 you might try to 'salvage the approach' if you came in high and fast over the marker for an ILS. Some idiots would brag about how they never had to do a go around and there was no approach they couldn't salvage.
At my company even 45 years ago they read out every approach, whether on the 727's old FDR or on the L10's DFDR. If you weren't on speed and vertical speed below 500 feet, you would get a note from the chief pilot with a copy of the read-outs. The second time a given PIC did this, he was "invited" to have a chat with the chief pilot.