ugh, a plane doesn't simply fall out of the sky because they hit a bird, nor a gale force wind. It is a 50 ton plane moving at 277Km would glide through it like butter. Engine failure beatch please, these aircraft were designed to function with one engine in the event of failure.
Their approach path was SEVERAL KMs long and they would have am abort plan in place as well.
I will let you in on another little secrecy I was an APRON controller for close to 10 years, at JHB airport, bird strikes are common, generally speaking pending how far down the runway the plane is, when they are hit pending how far down the in take off sequence they are or landing sequence, they would still take off or land regardless, and then declare the strike turn around and land, or taxi as normal.
You seem to have this hollywood impression, that a plane immediately spirals out of control, it doesn't it has the forward and kinetic energy of a 50 ton bulldozer moving forward, short of a concrete wall 10 meters thick you ain't stopping for nothing.
It requires absolutely catastrophic failure like the engine falls off or the tail wing decides to come detached and even then it has enough energy to move forward several 100 meters.
Additionally they flew with the wind direction or against the wind direction, so a cross wind wasn't even a thing.
FYI they can up to date weather information, little know fact larger commercial airports have their own weather centers, they get up to date ATIS as well.
I have dealt with several phases of declared emergencies from phase 1 to 3. Air france belly flop, bird strikes, cabin smoke, burst tires, you name it, I likely encountered it.
