Looking at the videos and the aircraft recovery it would appear the aircraft operated into its 3 main sections during the first seconds of impact; the tail, main fuselage and wing tanks and the nose section. The nose section being recovered from the far side of the trees towards the airfield. I would speculate that his survival was substantially aided by his slower deceleration through the vegetation and being thrown away from the conflagration caused by the wing and fuselage tank explosions on the road itself.
