content: Given those high winds once he's on the ground, I would say they didn't account for that, and were pushing the machine to it's limits. They guy operating the machine should have been aware of the limitations, but it's definitely the GC's job to make sure things like this don't happen. I imagine somebody was fretting this possibility, but didn't want to lose time(money)... This time the gamble didn't pay off, and in fact quite the contrary.