I have a question, perhaps aimed primarily at training pilots doing sim training, perhaps at anyone on this list who accessess FDR data for accident investigation. I apologise for my non-professional aviation-licencing status. Q. how often will a handling pilot be observed to make an extreme rearwards yoke input in the moments - seconds - prior to high energy arrival, ie. 'crash' if you will, other than perhaps a deliberate attempt to arrest descent rate of a controllable aircraft. Perhaps this is an imponderable. I know that aviation-forensic wisdom is that there is often, for example, evidence of violent rudder input (both legs) witnessed in lower limb injury patterns in violent impact. My thought is that the (witnessed?) terminal pitch-up of this a/c may have been deliberate, or, alternatively, instinctive. I acknowledge that a shrewd / 'cool' pilot will "fly" the aircraft all the way down.. my question rests on the psychological effect of ground-rush, and any pertinance to this incident is generic rather than specific.
PPL / sailplanes 500hrs / medical Dr.