>The outer airframe is only a few millimeters thick. Aircraft like that will crumple up like a paper cup if they strike solid objects. The thought of an inter-connected web of structural steel support beams being cut through by a commercial airliner just doesn't jibe with my experience handling these parts in real life. It would be like throwing a boiled egg at chicken wire and expecting the wire to lose in the collision…
Aircraft carriers would be impossible otherwise. A large plane can be held stationary on the ground at full engine capacity with minor tension. The airframe can't afford to be a whole lot more.