Man, I know that feeling. I did the same with my last 4*60 nice easy down wind turn to base and decide I turned to quick, turn back, and watch it drop like a riock. No mater how hard I pulled, it just wouldn't answer. That was over a year back and then I did just the opposite a few months back with my Ruperts Dad. I was playing with the CG and got it overly responsive and it was also wanting to climb like carzy, couldn't trim it out and had to fly it back pushing on the stick to hold it level. About 150 ft from the end of the runway, it started to ballon up on me and I pushed a little harder to watch it do a 90 downward onto the farm lane. Not much left. Ilooked down at the TX and saw my little harder push was to the stop. Sure liked that plane.

Glad to hear yours gets to fly another day.

Don