[_heimdall]

Survivorship bias is related to how you respond to the data though, in this case reinforcing the wrong parts of the plane based on where you saw holes in planes that returned.

I do believe it is still true that planes can take more damage and still land safely compared to helicopters.

I can't find any good data to support it now though, maybe someone going by here will have a good link to data that shows real world data either way.

[HideousKojima]

An anecdote, but in 1983 an Israeli F-15 famously landed successfully with one of its wings almost completely sheared off after a midair collision during training exercises.

[mysterydip]

Yeah agreed, I was making a connection to the parent's "the planes could survive hits the mechanics didn't expect"