Why is a whole plane not made out of a black box durability?

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Why is a whole plane not made out of a black box durability?

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The materials and protections required to make each black box capable of withstanding a crash are both very heavy and very expensive. A plane made like a black box will be far too heavy to fly. It’ll be so heavy that we would have to re-invent wheels (literally), runways, engines, wing designs, etc. This weight would also make it require impractical amounts of fuel per flight.