I don't know how/why anyone would choose to land at an airport with their glide path indicator down. I used to take lessons (at John Tune no less), and my instructor took me to a hanger one day when the conditions were outside of my skill level (crosswinds) and showed me an airplane that had taken a prop strike in a landing. He said that the pilot was trying to land at JWN with a severe cross wind and kept aborting the landing. Finally, he got it down but not before incurring a prop strike which pushed the engine back 6 inches into the fuselage.
The moral: if you can't land safely at you destination airport, find one where you can. BNA is 10 miles SE and has a perpendicular runway. He should have gone there and landed with a direct headwind. Would have saved his aircraft, at a minimum. That dude should have gone to Asheville or somewhere where a tower approach with long runways was available.
Also, all that wight on board really calls for increased skill level if anything unusual happens, like a go-around. You're just begging for a stall.