stilton, When visiting Tripoli at the start of the Six Day War when the Algerian air force was ferrying fighter aircraft through there to help the Egyptians. The authorities refused us permission to unload and load the holds, and surrounded us with armed soldiers to stop us. Eventually we managed to persuade them to let us go and we threw everything from the holds of our VC10 out onto the tarmac, loaded the bags of the uncoming pax, started up and got the hell out of the place before they changed their minds. It was a case of all hands to the pumps!