You mean being reversed from a maintenance error, if they were connected the wrong opposite way?
Something like that... Though I have to wonder whether the 'wrong opposite way' means that the elevator is connected to the rudder pedals and vice-versa, and both work backwards. I was just thinking of reversed elevators i.e. you pull back the stick and the nose goes down.
There have been at least a few recent accidents involving reversed controls. One was a taildragger that got airborne as soon as power was applied, then stalled when the pilot tried to push the nose down. Another was a chap who'd done his own maintenance, and asked to do some fast-taxis prior to getting the work signed off. He got airborne and immediately crashed, again killing himself. As I recall, it was the elevator reversed in both cases.
Both my instructor and I had rather less significant adventures with radio-control aircraft and reversed ailerons. I crashed straightaway. He left the ailerons centralised and did a circuit using rudder, elevator and throttle only.