Well, this is all very amusing but... could you imagine any other third world aviation country allowing the boys in their toys to land at an international airport and take it out of action?
Well, given that the options of the 'boys in their toys' [
], having declared an emergency, would've consisted of:
a. landing on a nice long runway within crosswind limits at Brisbane,
b. landing outside crosswind limits at Amberley with reduced controllability,
c. hanging round hoping the wind will drop off (with maybe not much fuel left anyway), or
d. ejecting,
I'm kind of hoping all the other 3rd world aviation countries would do the same.