Here here, slagging does no good.
On the other hand, whilst working in LYE Ops, I do recall a crew carrying a defect all round the Pacific. All of a sudden, and purely co-incidental with arriving in the city where the Commonwealth Games were being held in NZ (can't remember which, age induced!) it became ,sadly, impossible to carry on. Arrived there just as the games started and spares arrived just as they finished.
Coincidence of course.
Doc C