“There are plenty of spare aircraft parts in Africa. All they have to do is take what they need from the wrecks surrounding every airstrip.
I was in the scrap metal industry, as was my father. Any A&P who can salvage many useful parts out of a smoking hole in the African soil can also walk on water.
When the “Everglades Lawn Dart” went in at 400 knots, it was ground to bits.
In soft sand impacts, ‘kinetic compression’ tends to cause sufficient dimensional distortion to render the parts unusable (if not unrecognizable).
As in every attempt to graft European/American technology into any aspect of an African ‘culture’(Term used casually, very casually), the graft fails with septic results.
One could say that the endemic cultural graft causes the European/American graft to fail. In short: AFRICA WINS AGAIN!
Hebrews 13:8 describes Africa and any/all attempts to induce progress on the Dark Continent.
However, there are lots of planes in Africa that just got left there to rot in the sun and rain. The fasteners might be useful, if they haven't lost the wrenches.
BTW, they didn't they catch a guy trying to sell turbine blades from the "Everglades Lawn Dart?"