But I was a little surprised to see smoke going towards the fuselage in today's incident. Is there any recommendation to turn in the last few seconds of movement to leave the fire on the downwind side, or would this probably have been done and it's just unfortunate that a light and variable wind varied shortly afterwards?
You can see from the plume the wind is very light especially at ground level. The plume moves towards the front of the plane when it gets higher. When winds are that light it's almost impossible to find upwind, and indeed fires can create their own wind.