Regardless it still wound up wadded up on the side of the runway. the pilot admitted he screwed up and should have waited. If I remember right it happened in Eureka Nevada. Some areas in Nevada are real bad when it comes to wind, such as Elko. A Bell 206 helicopeter crashed at Elko due to high winds and a pilot trying to fly in weather when he should have stayed on the ground. The 206 was about 30 feet off the ground in 40 knot winds that were gusting to about 60. The trailing rotor blade was driven past the bump stop and cut the tail rotor drive shaft. The loss of control caused the machine to spin and it was dumped into the north perimeter fence about 15 feet from the self serve fuel pump. Pilot was very lucky and walked away. Some times discretion is the better part of valor.The Draco airframe and wing could have handled the crosswind; the gear could not. The trailing links were modified to handle large ground irregularities (big rocks, etc). But when the crosswind drove the leeward link up, the plane cocked on the roll axis with the windward wing up to the point where there was not enough command authority to recover. If there had been a way to lock those links, the plane would have been OK.