I know how this one got there

That is just what you think it is, a Boeing 727 sitting in the tall grass off the south end of the runway in Kindu, D.R.C. It has been there for months and will be there for years, maybe decades.

Last year, the aircraft made an ill advised approach during a rainstorm. He had enough fuel to go elsewhere, but why do that, the runway was plenty long. Plenty long if you land near the beginning, not so long if you land halfway down. He rolled off the end into the field.

Nobody was injured and the aircraft wasn't heavily damaged but there it will stay. Good thing, Kindu didn't have a decoration, like the other airports. Now it does.

I can picture the scene. The rain pouring down, the engines in max reverse roaring away, flames coming out the nozzle, continuous compressor stalls, "bang, bang, bang, bang", the brakes smoking and steaming; and despite all the airplane rolls slowly and majestically off the end of the runway and on into the field until it came to dignified halt in the grass.

What a sight.