Epic fail

Wingedangel, what caused the plane to dive so violently ? was it the storm ?

I think he had been trying to find the island? it's a 55 min flight and we were up for 2hrs 25m before the woman said 'we will now be landing in koh samui...and we literally wen't nose down from the second she finished the speech, I have done that same flight 5 times previous to that one, and it's never been longer than an hour in the air.
I don't know why he was so violent, though my mates were waiting for us in a jeep next to the runway and saw us dive out of the cloud cover that was maybe 70mtrs...
and they both thought we were going to hit the tarmac, they heard it through the noise of the storm, and then fly out of the clouds far far too fast and then screeech back upwards out of site, at the closest point they said we were literally 30ft from the ground. I think he knew that he had a certain amount of fuel and if he didn't try and land it now, we would be fucked to try and reach the mainland with the fuel that was left...ie small island hopper 5 hours flying time, when we landed we had been in the iar just over 5 hours.... for a 55 minute flight. So he took his chance and might have fucked it up, ie got to close and got his angle of attack wrong.
My mates spent a very uncomfortable evening wondering if we actually made it back to the main land, and we had to do the same journey in the morning. this time with white unpenetrable cloud all the way with little patches that would show us the ocean, and I was imagining the same scenario just in the daytime with him having to find the damned island in thick daytime cloud, though as it was, it was clear for the last few miles, though the storm had battered the island quite hard, the water was 3-4ft deep in places.