Flight Safety,
especially with a cross wind, unless one could choose the cross wind direction?
Exactly, that's the whole point. If this guy had tried to continue with the landing and ended up over the grass, with a possible control problem and STILL in the same nasty wind conditions that assisted the damage in the first place...............????
The bottom line is he got it away from the ground, sorted the A/C and himself out, re-grouped and chose another runway. No loss of life........just some explaining to to.
We are all capable of making mistakes, errors of judgement etc... it's what you do after the mistake that counts.