One local pilot was able to get a tandem seat biplane in the air with the rear stick secured hard back by the lap belt.
Blimey - did he get it down again?
Friend I flew with a lot was taught in Arizona. His control checks were full and free several times and visually checking the surfaces moved in the correct sense. I can't believe any instructor would not teach that...
I seem to recall an F15 crash (RAF Lakenheath?)
I think an RAF Hawk was lost twenty or thirty years ago with mis-rigged ailerons.