Why is a whole plane not made out of a black box durability?
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Planes need to be strong but light enough to fly. If you tried to make a plane strong enough that it would not break upon crashing, that plane would likely be too heavy to fly, or too expensive to ever build and operate.
Also, just because the aircraft survives, that doesn’t mean the people inside do too. You’re still crashing into the ground at speed. What you’d need in that scenario is something to cushion the blow (like a giant airbag), or better yet, something to slow down your fall so that you hit the ground at a slower speed (this is what a parachute does, for instance). Making the plane itself stronger doesn’t help with that.
Ultimately, the best thing you can do to make an aircraft safer is to prevent it from crashing in the first place, and that is exactly what the industry and regulators focus on.
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