Old and Bold
Although perhaps but vaguely connected to test flying - there is on record
an incident in the life of ACM Bennet (ex Pathfinders) that took place during the cold war - of an event most of us would not wish to experience.
During the Berlin Airlift when a/c had to fly in or out of Templehof
at something like 2 minute intervals - Bennet in his haste to fit into his alloted slot - coupled with bad weather closing in discovered to his
horror that in his heavily loaded Tudor he was at full throttle down the
run-way with flying controls jammed - realising too late that he had
failed to check the locks had been removed.
The story of how he managed to clear the boundary - keep low level flight
and return to the airfield without causing a major disastor are a well worth
a read.