not so scary but scary enough
There have been scary moments but none like that. But the ground is a very bad place to be.
Landing at 190 tonnes on a particular single runway (with an initial hugely steep upslope) and a hump. No ground radar, no ILS. In a far away country. The guy ahead was meant to proceed to the end of rwy and await turnaround instructions. Because of the upslope I mentioned, the TDZ is considerably displaced from the actual end of pavement with 5,000ft to a suitable turnoff and because of the hump guys at the far end can disappear from sight. Guess who I met gaily bowling back up the runway back-tracking to my turnoff? The other guy, both of us with island reserve fuel and closing at 50 knots. He stopped dead, 200ft short of the turn-off. Close to four hundred souls all told, well over three hundred tonnes of potential conflict and nearly thirty tonnes of fuel. He bought dinner, I bought the wine. We both sure learned a lot about that. Truly there are more commercial aircraft in pieces on the ground than there are ships broken down in the sky. Apart from military service which had its sad times I have led a charmed life, not one IFSD, nothing in thirty years. So I quit whilst still ahead without anyone having to tell me Old Smokey!