Typical crosswind landing when the pilot did not "Kick out of Crab" soon enough, and the landing gear takes the punishment for the bad execution. Sometimes, you can't quite kick out enough because the crosswind component is too severe. I hate to say it, but that landing is really not that rough. I've seen - and been in - much worse.
I remember when I was first getting my license, the senior flight instructor wanted to fly with me to certify me for solo. We were in a little Piper Tomahawk. Fixed gear, with wheel struts you had to see to believe, so students could throw a lot of punishment on the landing gear without structural failure. So we were shooting some touch and goes, and the instructor says to me "I want you to bounce it hard and recover from the bounce". I bring it over the numbers, stall the aircraft about 5 feet or so above the runway, it bounces and I recover.
He says, "No, I want you to BOUNCE it and recover. That was not a bounce." So I try again. Pretty violent bounce as far as I was concerned. I recover. Heart rate pretty high at this point. He says, "Let me show you what I want. He takes the airplane and this dude stalls the airplane over the approach end of the runway about 10 feet off the asphalt. I literally thought the wings were going to sheer off from the violent impact. I instinctively took the controls because I thought we were going to crash and somehow recovered. It's actually a blur. I hardly remember anything other than the violent impact with the runway. He says, "There. you got it. Now I know you can recover from a bounced landing."
And that was nothing compared to recovering from HIS stalls while in a bank. Good grief. Sometimes, I marvel at the fact that I survived that flight training. Especially spin recovery. Yikes.
