Thanks for your comments and you are probably right, from a pilots point of view it was probably within the envelope of “normal” flying.
I was a passenger on the flight and in all my years of flying fixed wing and helicopters (I work in the oil industry), it was by far my worst trip. First the surprise by the aborted landing and then being thrown around inside a dark tropical thunder storm.
No news on Airliners.net and good call by the pilot not to land. A similar incident happened in Phuket, Thailand in 2007 where a MD82 crashed while attempting to go-around during a rain storm.