Worse one I had was into Conakry when I did a month with air afrique just after a coup which saw the last lot hanging from a bridge. Skipper a Swiss german racist and not terribly bright. The new presidents palace surrounded by prohibited airspace with the warning of ground to air missiles and that we would be shot down. Notam had a Trench 1/3rd of the way down the runway. New Chinese controllers whose second language was French and couldn't understand our request about the runway length available whatever tongue we used..decided a low downwind look see and all we could make out was the orange earth colour of the works. So elected to land from the palace end and plonk it on the numbers. Skipper took it..SOP..and we crossed the trench at 60knots..fortunately it had been filled in.
He became chief pilot on the 747 a job no one else wanted.
and you tell your mates about it and no buggar would believe you.