Excellent point about not looking fast enough.

We always joke about "helicopter landings" in high winds, but the
subconscious mind wants to see the ground moving past at a familiar
rate. We also used to laugh at how "flatlanders" would come in too
slowly at high altitude airports and drop it in because the ground
seemed to be moving by too quickly. A few weeks ago I was landing in 32
kt winds in Salida, CO and the urge to push the nose down was very
strong due to my low ground speed. Fortunately, I got a glimpse of the
airspeed indicator...

Dan Marotta

On 7/2/2014 6:25 PM, JJ Sinclair wrote:
We had an accident at Siskiyou County a few years back that looked a lot like the posted photo. Wind was blowing a good 40 knots direct crosswind to the N-S runway, so the pilot wisely decided to land into the wind on a taxiway. GPS trace showed touched down at 40 ground speed which would have been about 80 IAS!
Probably flying something like 70 for potential wind-shear, he turned final and felt the ground wasn't going by as fast as it usually did, so he sped up! Anyway, he caught a wing tip shortly after touch down and did a full blown flying ground-loop. Boom broke during the first 90 degrees, but it wasn't over. Left wing was stopped, but the right wing was accelerating. This resulted in a rolling-turning maneuver that left the ship upside down with a relatively undamaged wing on top of the inverted fuselage. Pilot is still with us with nothing more than a broken foot!
JJ