THIS is the stuff on which to speculate! Let's see, the left wing hit the 33ft pole, which in the process of being uprooted would have naturally swung the aircraft to the left. And, on landing, it only slid a few metres (-800 brakes). So it was certaiinly (please underline "certainly") wrongly aligned with the taxiway to the right of the pole and, by virtue of this leftwards nudge toward the runway proper, narrowly averted the catastrophe of ploughing through the 27 aircraft patiently awaiting departure with, er, say, 1,500 sob. Now, THAT, you can build a story on!
With apologies to the two who actually got the aircraft on the ground.