Real Aircraft Belly Landings

Just mentally comparing here the low-velocity, tangential-angle crashes with planets seen in Generations, "Jedi Crash", or the Rako Hardeen arc of TCW with some real world examples.

First up, a test of an F-16, one of the smallest modern fighter jets at 15m:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8XakLMAm_U

The wing wobble has always struck me as interesting.  Given recent reports of cracks developing near the cockpit on F-16s, that might be worth reviewing, too.  Next, one of the largest, the 22.4m F-111, with story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyYK9oz9Go

A Lear-style corporate jet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzxTMDpLOvQ

A badass partial-gear landing of an almost-24m P-2V:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEt6hHxb5o

And a 767, which at 55m (+/- 7 depending on model) is rather larger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMB-nk22Mg

And one more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlsG73AGf-k

Of course, these haven't involved collisions with anything.  That may not go as well.  In the first case they throw everything but the kitchen sink at this poor bird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CZxvu85VM4

Here is a sideways drifting slide where the plane holds up well until engine and fuel tanks are forcibly penetrated: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuvGoKdWFM

Here is a cleaner view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVyZeSgxmsw

Were it not for the gnarly wing cutters, the plane's structure would've done a pretty fair job of holding up, despite the mean sharp rocks they landed on, and the landing on the port wing.

Also, collisions can go quite well . . . we don't get much about this collision.  I'm just including it here because it is badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M359poNjvVA

Overall, the moral of the story is that our lightly built modern aircraft are highly resilient, if even a tad flexible under interesting loads.  That's actually helpful.  Too much rigidity can be bad for your health . . . and you can insert your own joke now.