I went to Rhodesia in 1965 on DomCol leave. This was two months leave given to personnel who had signed on to the RAF overseas. On completion of this I was put on Johny Johnson's Argosy with the plan to fly from Salisbury to Khormaksa and then be flown back to the UK.
We cut the corner a bit fine on the taxi out so a main undercarriage leg had an expedition across the grass. When we arrived at Nairobi I was offloaded and had to spend three days at Eastleigh until a BCal Brittania took me home.
Somebody told me I was offloaded to make way for a load of topsoil.