I think there is an old bug in the Ju-88. When landing, if you do it too fast or your vertical downspeed is too big and you crash on the ground, main undercarriage breaks (normal), cockpit hits the ground (normal) and pilot gets inmediatly "Pilot Killed" (not normal !) . You can see from an external view that the plane is intact, excepting the broken undercarriage, but pilot is dead.
Is it a bug, ? or is it supposed to be due to the glass-cage configuration of the Ju-88's cockpit? In WWII many wounded planes belly-landed in emergency, crashing their undercarriage, in a big dust cloud, but the crew was able to survive, if they could avoid the airplane caught fire in the event.
Of course if the bombardier were still in his nacelle, below the cockpit, it would be smashed, in case of this crash-landing, but, I think, in real life he would leave this position before !
, like belly-gunners in B-24 or B-17 would do. But, here in IL-2, it is the poor pilot who always dies !
IL-2 has got now a big chance of solving this and other old bugs, thanks to your efforts. Many thanks to all Team, in advance.