Back in the day when 23 Sqn had Meteors, one of a tail-chase pair hit a wedgie at low level at a fair turn of speed. Unfortunate bird impacted on the lip of an intake, 1/2 going into the wing, the other thru the engine, removing all the engine instrument leads/sensors in the process. With no engine instruments he shut down the engine & came home on one. One of our better pilots was scrambled to do an external inspection, and after putting the canopy into the tailpipe, advised to try a restart. Successful, so just keep the throttles together and investigate handling for landing.
The wing damage took over as the speed fell, uncontrollable roll at about 150kts. So he plastered it on the long runway at Amberley at 160 or so kts. We quite expected the brakes to burn out, as had happened on several occasions in normal ops. Procedure was to pull onto the grass, retract the gear and sit down on the ventral tank.. But they survived in this case, so all was well, apart from the meteor, which required considerable work. The impact had wrapped the leading edge of the wing back around the aileron control rod & reached the spar, and the nacelle leading edge was smashed. Oh, and the wedgie of course