I can't help finding this a bit ironic, given that the B777 is an amazingly safe airplane with only 8 hull losses out of over 1600 built (so less than 0.5%), an

I can't help finding this a bit ironic, given that the B777 is an amazingly safe airplane with only 8 hull losses out of over 1600 built (so less than 0.5%), and one of those hull losses was because an Asiana crew "landed" a fully functional 777 on a beautiful sunny day short of SFO RW 28 L [1]. The other 7 hull losses were * a BA flight landing short of LHR due to iced up fuel [2], * Emirates crash landing in Dubai due to a botched go-around [3], and * two Malaysian Airlines flights that had nothing to do with the aircraft (the probable pilot suicide/mass murder of MH370, and MH17 shot down over the Crimean), and * three aircraft burning out on the ground (EgyptAir, Singaporean Air, Ethiopian). Amazingly, there were only 3 fatalities with the Asiana crash (two not wearing seatbelts, one run over by fire truck), 1 with the Emirates crash (firefighter, not passenger), and 0 with the BA accident. Only the BA flight really revealed a problem with the aircraft which appears to have been fixed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Flight_521 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Flight_521