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In presence of a strong wind above a liquid surface, liquid droplets get accelerated and eventually hit the interface with a high speed under a small angle. Experimental studies demonstrate that such droplets may escape the initial crater and either get broken into secondary droplets in the air, or protrude along the interface, leaving behind agitated surface with entrapped bubbles. Here we aim at reproducing the observed phenomena in a numerical model based on Volume of Fluid technique using Basilisk package. On a flat interface, the impacting droplets partially escape the crater and get broken in front of it within the range of impact angles from 15° to 45°, in agreement to the experiments and simple theoretical considerations. In presence of waves, the escaping droplets fly into the air but, being adhered to the crater, get stretched and broken into secondary droplets. For smaller angles, the droplets escape the …