It is similar to the comments on how the Asiana 777 crash at SFO showed how strongly built the plane was... you know, apart from the tail breaking off.
The Asiana pilots damn near cartwheeled the aircraft into the ground and the aircraft would have fragmented into many pieces if not so strongly built. I can't imagine any flying aircraft able to survive that sort of incident without serious damage, and the aircraft performed its most critical function - keeping most or all passengers alive - even well outside design parameters.