Years ago I used to fly into the Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ), although in those days it was called the Toronto Island Airport, because it was built on an island in Lake Ontario.Back then, the only instrument approach that was available was an NDB approach over Lake Ontario towards the city and all of its buildings. It was scary when you knew that the CN Tower, which hails 2,056 feet into the Toronto skyline, was less than a mile northeast of the airport. But the beacon was on the airport property, so if you paid careful attention to your track, it worked out fine.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/probable-cause-43-into-the-water