Though this has all the earmarks of an urban legend it is true. In the 70's my father was a partner in a large multi-national engineering firm that did business in Africa and Saudi Arabia. One of his associates was flying back to Saudi from somewhere in Africa on a flight that included a lot of pilgrims for the Hajj. One of the planes main landing gear apparently collapsed on touch down and the plane spun and skidded to a stop. All of the Westerners and other more "experienced" fliers were frightened and dumbstruck by the accident and just grateful to be alive. The sub-Saharan pilgrims on the plane calmly gathered their belongings and exited the emergency doors. As they had no other frame of reference they assumed the "landing procedure" to have been perfectly normal...