“The cause of the incident was a quirk in the Airbus A320’s flight computer. On the first near-landing, it switched to ground mode — which, among other things, limits the power of the ailerons and restricts the pilots’ power to move them. They had to look on powerlessly as the flight computer took control and put the plane at the mercy of the storm.”
As someone who generally would rather get a root canal then fly, let me the first to calmly, rationally, and succinctly say: EEEYAHGGGHG!!1!
>>As someone who generally would rather get a root canal then fly, <<
I fly 5,000 miles a week. You can get used to anything. But I agree with your exclamation and sentiment. Up until now the worse things I have experienced were really bad turbulence, a lightning strike and a landing runway-overshoot (no harm done, just embarrassing for the pilot). All on different flights, btw.
It’s unfortunate, but that’s what happens when you take away the pilot’s authority and give it to flight-control and software engineers.