The Boeing 777 was introduced in 1994 and has an excellent safety record . Since its first commercial flight in June 1995 , the type has suffered only five other hull losses : British Airways Flight 38 in 2008 ; a cockpit fire in a parked EgyptAir Flight 667 at Cairo International Airport in 2011 ; the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in 2013 , in which three people died ; Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , which was shot down over Ukraine killing all 298 people aboard in July 2014 ; and in August 2016 , the sixth Boeing 777 hull-loss occurred , when Emirates Flight 521 crashed while landing at Dubai International Airport and began burning
British Airways Flight 38
British Airways Flight 38
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370