Originally Posted by
bront
It was definitely downwind, just look at the grass in front of the cameraman.
Agreed - you can see his downwash ahead of the aircraft blowing the dust.
It looks like he was trying to yaw right in the very late stages of the intended arrival so that he ended up pointing into wind in the hover - unfortunately the loss of ETL increased his power demand and therefore TR demand - the audio certainly suggests some NR decay which will reduce TR thrust further as it slows down.