Agaricus,
With all due respect, I don't doubt that you're appreciating both sides of the story, but it could be just as easily countered (entirely justifiably) by posing the question... Just what the hell was the poor fella playing at by taking on what could be interpreted as a borderline uncooperative attitude to ATC? Not only that, but failing to respond coherantly to the requests of ATC, whilst inbound to an airport blowing a 55kt x-wind strikes me as a huge cause for concern. Pilots are 99.9% of the time very good at making themselves available on the airwaves when required.
Of course this is all speculative dribble based on what the OP heard. I see no problem with a crew electing to continue a landing in adverse weather (after all, they are in the best position to determine a course of action), but why all this callsign gibberish?
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