If an airplane acquired a few bullet-holes in flight, it could probably be safely flown to its scheduled destination (though it would be prudent to land at the earliest reasonable opportunity, to keep the lawyers at bay, if nothing else).
Hmm at what altitude did the plane lose part of the fusilage?
Just to add a note of humor to that story I remember a stand up comedian of the time talking about being “sucked to oblivion” and how that just might be a good thing(?!)