I've seen this image many times, always wondered about it. Finally learned.

My first thought was always, HOW? How does a plane land on it's nose, and remain straight up and down? If it crashed from a great height, wouldn't it collapse completely on impact?

Well, it crashed on take off. That answers many years of seeing this as a poster and wondering HOW

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsheley/4214129713/