Yeah, they were lucky the river was where it was. The Anticosti guy had uploaded the stuff outta UL, a combination of varsol, MEK, acetone etc. They did a dry takeoff in UL, and on the wet takeoff from the island, the right engine blew just before V1. Golden horseshoe time.
The US Navy had a G1 where the F/O armed the w/m on takeoff right after the gear retraction. They'd been doing wet departures all summer, and their procedure had the PNF reaching up and turning the w/m off first thing after retracting the gear. The first cool day, they did a dry takeoff, and the PNF reached up without thinking and flipped the w/m switches, from off to on. They overtemped both engines but got it around and landed. I saw the pics at Flight Safety. The engine mounts were visibly twisted out of true.
