Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I think it's neat to see things were not familiar. OP, if you prefer I can delete and start a new thread.
Here in our home state of Florida to show you the power of a hurricane, this was what Hurricane Ivan in 2006 did to the I-10 Bridge over Pensacola Bay.
The one nice thing that happened afterwards was the bridge was replaced by a much nicer 3 lanes in each direction bridge. I lived in Pensacola in the past for 6 years, a great town but very prone to hurricanes.
If you were crossing the I-10 bridge in 1978 and looked to the south you would of seen this.
That is National 193 that landed in Pensacola Bay. It's called Escambia Bay on the maps but no one uses that name. My crew was working that night, I was a controller at Pensacola Approach from 1976 to 1981. That's a barge with a crane that was able to lift the plane intact out of about 13' of water. They resold it for about a million dollars, I guess it's flying again somewhere.
The crew mistook barge lights and the shiny surface of the bay for the wet runway during a heavy rain storm. The ILS to the main runway 16 was down because of runway resurfacing, so the only approach was to runway 27 over the bay. Had they landed about a mile later they would of impacted a 100' high bank, the airiport elevation is much higher than the water level. So actually landing 3 miles short of the airport saved many lives, all but 3 people made it out alive, those three drown.
For those who fly, the approach was a surveillance approach. Sometimes called a GCA but only the military has altititude radar, we can only give azimuth, such as turn left, turn right and then we give recommended altitudes. In this case, 520' was the MDA (minimum descent altitude), which means the pilot should not bust that altitude unless they are sure they see the runway. In this case, their eyes lied to them. I believe both pilots were fired and National Airlines no longer exits. Back in the 70's National and Eastern along with Air Florida were major airlines in Florida and are not longer.