EK out of Tehran a few years ago. Taxiway was extremely bumpy. Might have contributed .....
Lined up for TO, revved up, immediate shutdown. Belgian Captain announced in heavily accented English that he'd lost the nose wheel steering and we'd go back to the terminal using the aviation equivalent of handbrake turns.
Eventually he came back on and said it couldn't be fixed there but Airbus procedures permitted both TO and Landing without it. Most of the PAX didn't speak English at all ( far less Belglish ) so were blissfully unaware of what was going on.
My most gentle landing ever in DXB
and a tow in all the way from the end of the runway