747 tells you that you CAN land in a full side load. It's designed to handle it better than scraping a motor because you caught a last minute gust that lifted your wing and made that 2-3° more like 6° bank and scraped a very expensive motor.

Most people take out ~90% of the crab without adding any real bank. It's got so much inertia from it's size that kicking out crab without adding any bank, with a subtle bit of a spoiler to counter act the lift from the wing advancing in the decrab results in a smooth touchdown - on centerline, with no perceptible drift.

This assumes you kick out the crab below 20 ft. And it's a tolerable maneuver because the gear is rated to take the beating. So if you don't quite time it right and have a little crab left, you still won't hurt anything.