? In fact, this aircraft is so capable?and powerful?that a pilot once flew an F-15 ten miles and then landed it, all after losing the aircraft's entire right wing.

While it is practically impossible for a commercial airliner to land with a missing wing, there is a legendary historical precedent in military aviation: the 1983 Israeli F-15 "One-Wing" landing. During a dogfight exercise, an F-15D collided with another jet, completely shearing off its right wing. The pilot, Zivi Nedivi, engaged the afterburners to maintain high speed, using the jet's massive fuselage as a "lifting body" to compensate for the lost wing surface. He landed at twice the normal speed (260 knots) to prevent a stall. For a standard commercial jet, however, the loss of a wing would cause an uncontrollable roll that no flight computer could correct. That said, jets can land with severe wing damage (such as a 10-20% loss of surface area) by using differential engine thrust and extreme aileron input, provided the hydraulic lines remain intact. Such landings are a feat of "extreme airmanship" and luck.