[Yosemitest]

Here's some more on wake turbulence caused crashes:

Here's the telling photo.



And here the reason why.

I think he crossed the wake turbulence of a leading aircraft in a turn
and the horizontal stabilizer was damaged from the wingtip vortices of the wake.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Its the trim tab on jimmy lewards plane that broke causing the elevator to move in the full up position.You can see that its missing in the picture.I believe that picture is when the aircraft unloaded at the top headed back down to its impact with the ground.

[B4Ranch]

You didn’t mention the missing trim tab.