"George Patterson" wrote in message
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There's a phenomenon at night called the "black hole" approach. If all you
can see are the runway lights, it appears that you're higher than you
actually are.

And this runway foreshortening can be severly accentuated by rain on the
windshield. (ref PanAm at Pago Pago)