I remember sitting in the caravan as a mighty F4 departed one frosty morning. Said F4 turns downwind after take off and announces a hyd failure / cable engagement.
F4 appears over fence, hits terra firma, engages cable and the bloody thing broke!! All i saw was runway lights popping up as they were torn from the runway edge.
F4 man rolls does a smart u turn and takes what was the overrun cable!!
I was fine till a mate on the arrestor team appeared at the caravan and pointed out where the broken cable had ended up at!