Generally, the operability of the aircraft depends on the aircraft itself and the flight crew operating it. However, in case of crashes during takeoff or landing, the survivability of the passengers depends on the aircraft, the flight crew, the cabin crew, the ground emergency teams, and the passengers themselves.
The design of aircraft is one factor only from a total of five factors affecting the rate of survivability. Human beings represent the major component of the survivability equation. Emergency landing or crash landing simply means that there is something wrong from either the aircraft or the human beings. Thus, high rate of survivability could be only maintained if the other factors excelled high enough to compensate the setback of the factor causing the problem. So, I would say that high rate of survivability has been achieved with Asiana B777 was due to good luck.
The above is the complete version of the comment published by Zintro blog on 23 July 2013.
The design of aircraft is one factor only from a total of five factors affecting the rate of survivability. Human beings represent the major component of the survivability equation. Emergency landing or crash landing simply means that there is something wrong from either the aircraft or the human beings. Thus, high rate of survivability could be only maintained if the other factors excelled high enough to compensate the setback of the factor causing the problem. So, I would say that high rate of survivability has been achieved with Asiana B777 was due to good luck.
The above is the complete version of the comment published by Zintro blog on 23 July 2013.
