The wheels-up event was (from badly-beer-affected memory) a series of errors. From the twenty-seventh-hand story I heard, the machine was being ferried from (I thought) Laverton, but it might have been Avalon. It is only a short hop in a Mirage, but complicated by the channelised steam-driven UHF box radio. After negotiating a clearance, the perpetrator found himself on a hot-and-high straight-in approach. No downwind leg. No prompting for Downwind Checks. Managed to create enough drag to get onto the runway. Noticed the aircraft sliding off to one side, tried using brakes to stop the turn. Thinks to self, "Self, you have a brake failure" as he departs the scene.
Apparently this was the only recorded case of a successful gutser. In the few cases of wheels-ups, Mirages hit the tailpipe and slammed the cockpit down onto the ground. In this case, the Big Jugs and wet runway saved his bacon, though the machine was a write-off.
Now, if anybody wishes to relate the TRUE story, of if the Perp (we know who he is, don't we...
) cares to correct this version, please do so.