Originally Posted by
nigelh
He would have done better to take off when he realised he was in bad spot and found better place to land properly or find a place he could be light on skids but into the wind .
Yep, putting it into the wind in the first place would have been better. Sometimes it's hard to judge the wind, but in this case they had people on the ground being capable to tell the pilot. In picture #2 of post #9 it also looks like landing into the wind would have been possible on this spot.