Well lets assume that. If the aircraft was trimmed correctly why the nose up pitch as it got airborne? if the control column broke there would be no way of pulling the nose up, if it was trimmed correctly, with no control inputs it would no doubt have eventually pranged, but not from a steep climb upon rotation
Prospector, thank you, that was exactly my point. I'm surprised that others couldn't see this as well.
The aircraft should have been controllable around the lateral axis with the trim and along with the use of power I would expect a survivable crash landing would have been possible if the control column did in fact break at rotation.