On 01 May 1983, Isræli Air Force Captain Zivi NEDIVI was flying an F-15 Eagle when he collided mid-air with and A-4N during a training accident. His starboard wing was ripped off at the shoulder; Multiple photos confirm he had 6-8 INCHES of the lead edge of the wing left, and some suggest he may have lost some fuselage as well at mid-shoulder and towards the trailing edge. He landed the plane as much still intact as was possible under the circumstances. McDonnell Douglas sent people to inspect the plane and fought Capt. NEDIVI'S claim of mid-air collision; They insisted this was ground collision damage. Once the Isrælis beat it through their heads that this really was the result of a mid-air collision, MD's engineers started working on it. Their final "assessment" (best guess) was that Capt. NEDIVI'S pilot skills are excellent and that the aircraft had been able generate lift because it's a very wide-bodied aircraft with a pair of MASSIVE powerplants; He wasn't flying a plane, he was flying a rocket. Horizontally. >No. You actually CAN'T make THIS shit up.