It is not massively advanced, nor modern, to have commercial aircraft , in the year 2012, performing potentially lethal manouveres, requiring that you disconnect most of the "raison d' etre " to control them. . . . do you not see a contradiction here ?
Location:
A hight technology industry laboratory
Incident:
A pipe carrying water is leaking and water drops on a equipment powered by electricity
Solution DGAC
Suspend a tin below the leak and empty it before it overflows
Repeat as many as requested
This is what the DGAC asked the pilots with their procedure