WOW circuits can aggravate tight situations very close to the ground in 50+ KTS gusting winds...
"Such a behavior of the machine was not documented in any manual," criticized a pilot to the Spiegel - and it is still not in there, because Airbus keeps things close to their chest until the completion of the investigation. This landing could have ended in a terrible catastrophe.
how about hurricane mods in all new aircraft??????
hope that pilot who gave that interview with "Der Spiegel" is not entrusted in a command position to fly SLFs...
can it get more ridiculous than that????