Originally Posted by niknak
Not so far away, the official record will show that the surface winds were 150 to 170 deg between 15 and 25kt.
not wishing to pre empt any official vedict, but this is the 2nd aircraft to be serously hurt in the last two weeks when very strong x - winds just happened to prevail.
Why take the risk?
Was there on the day and the wind direction was more variable than 150 -170, 110 - 180 and strength 6 - 15 knots but certainly nothing like 25!.
I don't think it was so much the strength of the wind but more the amount it moved around.
There was a luscombe which did a rather impressive ground loop a couple of hours earlier on its landing roll - again caught by wind.