Air Moorea Twin Otter Crash
I've just finished watching the Air Crash Investigation programme on Air Moorea 1121 near Tahiti. There are some remarkable similarities.
Things started to go badly wrong for the single pilot just after flap retraction. He made a pitch-up correction to maintain the climb, the elevator control cable snapped and the aircraft dived into the sea.
Many cables had been snapped in the crash but it was discovered that the critical one had been previously worn to just a few strands. This had not been helped by the aircraft being regularly parked in an area affected by jet blast at Tahiti airport. The elevators were routinely left locked in the down position. This put extra strain on the wires as the jet-blast hit.
I noticed only a brief reference to this type of event from Sammysu and it might be worth more discussion in this area. It would come in the category of 'catastrophic airframe failure' I think.