pacplyer:
Thank God for great aeronautics aloft in Boeing Aircraft (built like tanks.) They've repeatedly come home safe with huge portions of the aircraft gone.
Repeat after me everybody: "If it's not Boeing, I'm not Going."
Now now, that's not exactly fair - the DHL Airbus A300 landed successfully after a sodding
missile took out a significant chunk of the port wing's trailing edge and the hydraulics to boot!
That said, hats off to any aircraft manufacturer that builds beasts that can take that kind of punishment and still bring you home.