There was a case at the Portland, Oregon airport - I'm going to say about 20 years ago - biz jet tried to windmill start an engine on the runway and it went very, very wrong (IIRC, the biz jet was a write-off).
BTW, if you're going to do an engine out ferry, SOP should be to pull the ignition and fuel breakers for that engine, especially if you're going to move that engines thrust lever...
There was a pretty notorious case at Boeing Everett maybe 30 years ago. Major operator's chief pilot came out to pick up a brand new 747-400 with Rolls engines. During a ground run, he pulled all four fire handles to shutdown the engines - but then pushed the fire handles back in without setting the fuel condition switches to 'CUTOFF' - re-introduced fuel (and auto-ignition) into a hot turbine as the engines were spooling down. Mother of all tailpipe fires resulted - four of them - along with four melted turbines.
Even through it was the operator's pilot who screwed up (and violated procedures) and toasted the engines (over a million dollars damage each to all four engines), no paperwork had yet been signed so the aircraft still belonged to Boeing - and Boeing had to eat it.
I heard the pilot in question was permanently banned from Boeing property...