Thanks Blender Pilot - Scarey !!!
But I think you will find that in UK for an aircraft to be given a CofA it must have no part of the control run able to be fit backwards, and all such parts should be manufactured to not allow this to happen - Rule 14 if I remember correctly
Be interested what others think of this - the 2 A109 Powers that crashed from Sloanes had each just come out of servicing having had the scissor link changed, and the new one put on backwards.
Not sure of the full facts but a VIP one and an Air ambulance if I remember the details correctly, happened within a few months of each other, with the fault not discovered until after the second crash where the pilot managed to pull off a mean landing and exposed the fault, where the previous accident had roled and disguised the fact that the scissor link was the cause.