Alarming story of pressing on in poor

visibility

On 7 March 2017, a crew making a daylight non-precision
approach at Sint Maarten continued it without having
established the required visual reference to continue beyond
the missed approach point and then only realised that they
had visually ‘identified’ a building as the runway when
visibility ahead suddenly improved. At this point the approach
ground track was corrected but the premature descent which
had inadvertently been allowed to occur was not noticed and
only after the second of two EGPWS Alerts was a go-around
initiated at 40 feet above the sea.