Hadn't thought of that one, crab. If I was in that situation (ie forced to hover downwind) then rather than hover turn into wind to loiter, I'd go for forward flight. After dumping fuel, that might not have been an option for these guys.
I had one mission where we found some crash survivors just as night was falling. They were on the right side of a deep narrow canyon. We tried hoisting nose away from mountain but 255' cable wasn't enough so we had to turn around, nose into the mountain and it was still a very high hoist. By this time it was a black night. very black. Kinda scarey looking to the left knowing there are trees and rocks within 50' and not being able to see anything. But that's another story.