Man, I hate it when that happens!
I just re-built my ARFreakiNobler, from an accident, but that one wasn't a mechanical failure.
Previously, in the ARF's life, the pin came out of the clevis on the elevator joiner horn-at the top of a loop- and luckily it has flaps, or it would have been a nose-dive from the top! It managed to pancake in on that one. The hardware was the stuff TopFlite supplied in the box. Very dissatisfied with the quality of this offering from TopFlite, but the darn thing does fly rather well.
Sorry for your loss; I hope you get back in the air, soon!