There was a NASA program called "Propulsion Controlled Aircraft" - PCA - that was intended to bring battle-damaged military planes home rather than save civil aircraft, but the principle holds.
Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) | NASA
There's also a monograph on the subject entitled "Touchdown: The Development ofPropulsion Controlled Aircraft at NASA Dryden" in the "Monographs in Aerospace History" series, I had downloaded the pdf but can't find the link anymore. The monograph contains a very touching photo of Al Haynes making a PCA landing in the simulator....