Re the Harrier story, Pete Taylor air tested its furniture in 1972 or 73 over northern Germany after a bird strike knacked the engine. After several relight attempts, he banged out, the engine re-lit and off it tootled.
It was intercepted (still squawking emergency?) about half an hour later IIRC by a German F-104 but crashed due fuel exhaustion before they decided about shooting it down or not.