Boeing Planes Still the safest planes ever to fly

Even though this marks the fifth Boeing 777 to be written off in five years, the model remains one of the safest airplanes to ever fly.

In the 21 years since the plane entered service, only six Boeing 777s have been written off, because of fire, crashes, or disappearances, with Wednesday's Emirates flight being the sixth.

Only 0.4% of all the 777s ever produced got Crashed 
or incidents that left the plane damaged beyond repair. 

British Airways

The first 777 incident took place in 2008, when a British Airways jet suffered engine failure on landing and crashed on the runway at Heathrow Airport. The aircraft — operating as BA Flight 38 — experienced a sudden loss of power, and the cause of the incident was eventually traced back to a design fault in Rolls-Royce's Trent turbofan engines that allowed ice to build up in the fuel lines. Though nearly 50 people were injured, no one died in the crash.