But an auto followed by a 7-8ft drop into a pub, I expected the crew to be walking wounded at worst.
An 8ft drop onto the skids would have been almost a non-event (injury wise). Coming down through a collapsing ceiling at maybe a 60° nose down angle, going straight through the floor boards, only being arrested by the floor beams hitting the first solid airframe structures like the skid mounting (positioned below the crew seats), would make the whole cockpit area very injury prone.
The mostly undamaged rotor blades mean the rotor was stopped after some form of auto-rotation. A stopped rotor in the air, even at 75feet, would mean a 2 tons object crashing straight through the wooden ceiling (and ground floor) with explosive force. No time for the band making jokes 'that they brought the ceiling down' (if witness reports are reliable).
High AoA in the last moments of the flare, could explain the partially separated fenestron tail section, if it hit a solid structure first, leaving the rest of the helicopter in a pretty undamaged state, until the second and lethal stage of this drama unfolded. I think they ran out of luck twice.