anyone remember the Delta L1011 out of KSAN that got stuck nose up? Talk about hero pilots, they jockeyed the throttles and got into LAX...
I hadn't heard about this one, so I looked it up... DL1080, April 1977, had the left elevator stuck on departure from SAN, jammed at 19deg up resulting in strong pitch-up beginning at about 400'. Captain reported having the control wheel at the stops in pitch and occasionally in roll. Very nearly stalled at about 4000' with pitch going through 20deg and up but captain thought to dial back the wing engines, and firewall the center engine, using some thrust later from the wing engines to counteract the roll. They even moved pax forward to help improve the CoG. They limped to LAX with the nose up at about 14deg the whole way and made a successful landing.
A NASA report talking about this incident said "a less capable crew would likely
have not been able to save this airplane." Indeed.