Kind of reminds me of a military flight I did there in a B727 many years ago. We were enroute to Singapore but due to a progressively cracking windscreen diverted to Male. We must have upset their planned maintenance between scheduled services because we were advised to hold as the runway was still being cleared of equipment. We were finally cleared to land and as we applied reverse we saw what turned out to be a float level lying directly in front of the right MLG. We reported it to tower and the offending tool was recovered. It seems we had indeed run over it but fortunately it didn't fly into the flaps or worse, no 3 or else the aircraft would have been on the ground much longer than it took to ferry out a new windscreen and conduct the repair. Still, there are worse places in the world to break down right?