Cessna 340/340A
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20; Flight Crew Total 1100; Flight Crew Type 180
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Returned To Gate; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors
Completed run up for departure on Runway XX at ZZZ. Normal performance during run up. Took runway. Stopped. Ran engines to 20 inches manifold. All gauges green. Released brakes. Accelerated to blue line. Rotated. Within a couple seconds and roughly 20 ft. above runway; airplane was shaking and stall warning was intermittent. Put nose down or tried. Very difficult to get nose down. Trim was set for take off and autopilot off but it felt as if that was not the case. Decided to abort take off. Put nose down and brought power back. Landed quite hard. Kept directional control and exited runway. Returned to FBO. Inspected plane. Found evidence of tail strike. Loose tail cone would interfere with elevator function. Elected to not fly the plane. Put it into FBO hangar.
Cessna 340 Pilot reported a rejected take off after a probable tail strike caused damage to the fuselage tail cone and jammed the elevators.