Originally Posted by
systemoperator
After reviewing the previuos posted site of flight-data, it looks, that they were perfectly aligned with the highway before they turned for the missed approach. Could it be that they descended according the (wrong) visual cues from the highway? 13,5h flying in the dark before doing a canarsie isn`t the easy task.
If one uses Google Maps satellite view in a 3D slant-view, there is a large parking lot next to a rail yard just to the East of the racetrack that might give the impression of something like a runway. I'd say
systemoperator is on to something. One can easily imagine the scenario.