EGLD,
The Qantas 747 you're thinking about is the one which went to the Museum. Kicked up lots of dust.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/298253/M/
An older relative used to operate Caribous into some fairly interesting strips in PNG... they sloped, so that the a/c would stop on arrival and then would have assistance to get off again. More than once, apparently, they'd pretty well fall off the end and use the decent-sized valley to get to anything like a respectable airspeed.
And this is a bou-bou we're talking about. I've seen them blown backwards by a strong breeze on approach.
I was once up front in a 763 into and out of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. On arrival, the hill at the far end was coming up AWFUL fast!!! The hard stop was accompanied by sounds of much rattling & loose objects outside the door!
And surely ANYTHING into Wellington is a stress...