I worked on Lightnings in Saudi in the early 1980's.
As said before absolute pigs to work on.
Part of the Saudi pilots pre flight was to have a pray before climbing in,can't say I blamed them.
Saudi was the only place they were used in anger,bombing some rebels fort.
There used to be a link on the Airmech site to the SA CAA report into a fatal Thunder City Lightning crash,it did not make easy reading.