RE: lucky
The other possibility, of course, is that you fell below flyable air speed and tip stalled it. From your description I think this may have happened. At landing speeds with this airplane the control surfaces don't have a huge effect like they do with power on. Lots of low time flyers tend to try and "park" their planes rather than land them so you may want to keep a little more airspeed just in case this was the root cause.