I guess I have a hard time believing that we as crew can on a normal day, find ourselves in a situation between Nose gear and main contact where we can create an incapacitation.
maybe I don't want to believe it so,
I am sure that should we touch down, pull hard, shove the power up, then dive back it can happen,
But the Fedex accident is not so,
we have all watched the video, this was crew reacting, not acting. The airplane bounced from the mains, to the nose, and back to the mains., then broke up and rolled. They did nothing from what we see to actually induce this situation.
I am pretty sure that the crew was unfortunately fully aware of what was happening, right through the roll, I would think that they succumbed to smoke, as the cockpit appears pretty intact.
I guess the report will confirm, but I don't think the FDR, CVR can determine at what point they were no longer aware of what was happening.
It is an amazing and really tragic outcome.