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The F-15 is the only plane to have safely landed, not a controlled crash but actually returned to a runway and landed, after losing a wing.
Edit to add link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision
"the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing."
I like this part even better:
He added, "Only when McDonnell Douglas later went to analyze it, they said, OK, the F-15 has a very wide [lifting] body; you fly fast enough and you're like a rocket. You don't need wings."
But the pilots quote was best of all
"it's highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn't really fly an airplane like that."
because it was obvious you couldn’t really fly an airplane like that.
Looney Tunes "Don't look down" level achievement
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wing??