Why aren’t airplanes made of the same material as black boxes?

If the black boxes almost always survive a crash why aren’t the whole airplane made of the same material?

Because then it wouldn’t be an airplane. It would be an entirely different type of vehicle.

In fact, this type:

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Image by: Summer Woods, Public Domain, Link

 

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