Perhaps, indeed, but why would you if you can't see the target on an NPA? Confident that they needed to reposition the a/c off their current erroneous track to the target runway they had visual. Ouch. I still suspect there were 2 heads outside and no-one inside monitoring all the clues that confirmed the error.
They were skilful in bailing out of the first approach, but, as is often said, the skilful pilots uses their skills to avoid......etc