The RUH sector is always given the most dodgy 744's. Captive market for expats doing the LHR run to and from Saudi...as I used to...

A few years ago a 744 had its wing flaps get stuck when being retracted into cruise configuration after take off from RUH. The result was a high speed landing back into RUH. So the local maintenance crew (no doubt a bunch of eager beaver Filipinos) attempted a fix.

After a few hours everyone trooped on board again and were then treated to an identical emergency landing for the same fault. There was, as you might imagine, a near riot on the ground as angry passengers felt their life's had been put at risk.

Still at the least the flight crew had a decent amount of practice on how to land a fully laden 744 with the flaps only semi-deployed...

Chris