C-SAR you wrote:
''Can we all agree that:
- Pilot elected to land on 09''
Well according to post 269, it really doesn't look like it was their 'choice' (in a subsequent post you also say they pilots kind of went ''let's land on runway 09''). We could of course add 'if post 269 is proven to be correct', but then, as pointed out by others, it would be 'weird' for a pilot to choose the worst option, if not forced.