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Old 17th Jul 2011, 13:47
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@busTRE, he wasn't all that much wrong. Read the safety recommendations of the BFU derived from that incident. Two deal with landing mode and reduced aileron trow after a single main gear touch down and a wrong description about that in the standard issue airbus FCOM, probably since corrected. Airbus changed the description of the recommended crosswind landing technique on its own even before the report was published though.

The following systematic causes led to this serious incident:
• The terminology maximum crosswind demonstrated for landing was not defined in the Operating Manual (OM/A) and in the Flight Crew Operating Manual (FCOM), Vol. 3, and the description given was misleading.
• The recommended crosswind landing technique was not clearly described in the aircraft standard documentation.
• The limited effect of lateral control was unknown.
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