This particular aircraft A310, was banned from French airspace. In fact, the passengers disembarked from an aircraft after departing France that was "allowed" to use French airspace. They then boarded this doomed flight. Winds are now being reported as gusting to 90 mph, earlier I had read they were in the realm of 39 mph....I'll stick with the 39 or so numbers...Still bad business to try and land in--not impossible, but certainly very tricky and dependent upon the skills of the crew and the absolute direction of these winds.