"certain destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation in which something is going to be completely destroyed, with no doubt or uncertainty. Example: The hurricane's path was set to hit the small town, leaving behind a trail of certain destruction.
"To confront them would bring your certain destruction".
"Either the mine must stop digging, creating mass unemployment, or the city has to move – or else face certain destruction.
As a student, I once asked why anybody should even bother making art in the face of certain destruction.
Terrorists and tyrants will see that the fruits of their evil will be certain destruction by the forces of democracy.
Resistance brought certain destruction, but at Balkh, now in Afghanistan, the population was slaughtered in spite of a prompt surrender, for tactical reasons.
During the Jackson Administration, when General Armistead Thomson Mason challenged Colonel John Mason McCarty, McCarty, it's said, "would only consent to meet him on such terms as would result in the certain destruction of one, or both".
The historic city of Palmyra has fallen almost entirely under the control of Islamic State, after forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, collapsed under a seven-day siege that has left the magnificent ruins there exposed to near-certain destruction by the terror group.
Faced with the near-certain destruction of their homeland – part of the US Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas – dozens of former residents have joined forces with environmental campaigners to launch a lawsuit they hope will expose the folly of the Pentagon's plans to transform Pågan and Tinian, an inhabited island 200 miles to the south, into simulated theatres of war.
Seydlitz was saved from near-certain destruction only by emergency flooding of her after magazines, which had been effected by Wilhelm Heidkamp.
Maybe even when we're barreling toward near-certain death, destruction, and disaster, we can still try to lay back, take it all in, and just enjoy the ride.
The citation stated that he "saved the aircraft and its entire crew from certain death and destruction".
