We also had a flare incident on a MR1 in Malta in the 70's - they were old and unreliable. In this case a flare fell off a rear carrier, and was rolling around in the bottom of the bomb bay. We opened the bomb bay doors and the bloody thing just floated there in the air flow - it did move slightly, but backwards so it was above the clamshell doors that couldn't be opened in flight.
We landed back at Luqa at night, and scarpered whilst the RFS dealt with it. Probably lucky we weren't run over by a fire truck. Can't remember who the crew were now - but I flew with Gordon Laing for a quite a while on 203.
Nothing compared to what happened here though....