<<Major windshear on short finals, the "bus" flight control software almost certainly prevented the aircraft from hitting the water>>
However if the ambiguous system of reporting windshear at HK was clearer OR better understood by pilots then that flight may never have got to the advanced stage of, er, difficulty which it did.
Top marks to the crew for hacking it and the company involved for disseminating the info to other operators, including a rival for whom I once flew.
For info:
HK report the most severe windshear at the range at which ANY windshear FIRST occurs.
e.g: loss of 20kn at 5nm means that you MAY lose (say) 5kn at 5nm BUT there is a reported loss of 20kn later (how about 0.5nm)
The big loss could occur anywhere after the first loss (Have I made that intelligible
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