It turns out it's possible to land a jumbo jet with nothing but throttle control (i.e. no control of flaps, slats, ailerons, flaperons, elevators, air brakes, dive brakes, spoilers, rudder, trim tabs, spoilerons, stabilators, elevons, decelerons, etc.). It is, however, extremely difficult. Luckily it's also a very rare situation to find oneself in. As a result of these facts, it's only been pulled off successfully 1.5 times.
I'm concerned about the fact that number isn't an integer.
They almost made it...
I mean, technically they landed on the runway. It just that, unfortunately, the plane rolled at the last second and they weren't able to correct before the wing tip hit the ground first and the plane broke up. Over half of those on board lived, including the entire flight crew.
