Bernie old chap there's a big difference between landing an aircraft on its tail(not what happened in this case and bloody difficult to do anyway) and scraping the tail on the landing run because the nose is too high. The former causes an accident the latter gives the back end a scrape.
The old tin triangle used to have a little skid on the tail attached to 2 red lights on the coaming, when they came on it was considered prudent to lower the nose and start braking with the wheels rather than the wings!
May I suggest that if you have no experience of flying large aircraft you refrain from making inaccurate speculative statements. The usual post incident report investigations will clarify the sequence of events and will be published in the usual places.