Must be a popular thing to do.

Another Mirage III, A3-36 lost the engine on final to RAAF Darwin in
1986. Pilot noticed the lack of noise and unfamiliar pattern of lights
on the panel, promptly stepped out and changed the aircraft's w&b.
The Mirage floated down to a comparitively soft landing in the mud flats
before the runway.


I saw the airframe 2 years later and the most damage was done by souvenir
hunters, who used axes, angle grinders and some sort of thermonuclear
device to remove bits - including the fin.


I rather like the F-106 that landed in snow intact after the ejection, and was
trucked out and flown again.


Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter