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Originally Posted by Biggles
"Aviation expert Kieran Daly, from Flight International magazine, said not a single Boeing 777 had been lost in a crash since the aircraft was launched in 1995."
Now that is mighty impressive.
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Yea, when the incident was still "breaking news", my first question was "what airplane?"
Then it came out it was a 777 and I scratched my head for a while after drawing a blank on trying to think of previous incidents involving that. Indeed a very good record it has.
Yea, I'd say it looks like a total loss to me. But whatever happened, it sure handled that landing well. That does look like a dangerously high AoA in the video above, too. I guess it's just a lucky model number!
Cheers to the pilot. So far it looks like he'll be the hero of the day.