Last month, France's Airbus delivered its first passenger jet to Iran Air under a separate commercial aircraft contract that includes wide-body A380s, the world's largest passenger jet.
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ISIS downed a Russian passenger jet over Egypt on Oct.
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The 230 ushered in the era of passenger jet flight.
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NASA says it will build a quieter supersonic passenger jet
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In late 2015, they brought down a Russian passenger jet.
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The Chinese passenger jet has been under development since 2008.
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Airbus: Production of its mammoth A380 passenger jet will cease.
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When passenger jet engines are rebuilt, they have to be tested.
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The last fatal passenger jet airliner accident took place on Nov.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Europe's largest twin-engined passenger jet, the Airbus (AIR.
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The 110-130-seat CSeries overlap regional and mainline passenger jet markets.
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Sales have also slowed for Airbus' large four-engine A380 passenger jet.
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China's domestically developed passenger jet has completed its first long-distance flight.
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Then, book a flight on the passenger jet that doesn't have them.
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Speeds haven't increased since passenger jet service was introduced in the 1950s.
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And, sometime this month, the maiden flight of China's C919 passenger jet.
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One was from To21, which found no consumer passenger jet fatalities in 2500.
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The U.S. hasn't recorded a fatal airline passenger jet crash since February 2009.
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Qatar Airways is the launch customer of Europe's largest twin-engined passenger jet.
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From within its cavernous halls a new passenger jet emerges every working day.
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The Boeing 737 Max, the newest passenger jet on the market, works differently.
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This popular passenger jet was recently involved in the Lion Air fatal crash.
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Notably absent from the airshow schedule is the 150-seater COMAC C919 passenger jet.
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The sight of a passenger jet performing stunts might terrify you, but it shouldn't.
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CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - The biggest passenger jet ever made by Brazil's Embraer SA (EMBR22.
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Concorde, the world's only reliable supersonic passenger jet, wowed travellers for nearly three decades.
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The best seats aboard the world's biggest passenger jet just got better — and fewer.
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The company Wednesday debuted the first Japanese-made passenger jet in a half century.
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The company has applied for a patent on an all-electric commercial passenger jet.
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It's the latest blow to Boeing over the 737 Max, its bestselling passenger jet.
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A Boeing 2176-2176 passenger jet crashed in Iran on Wednesday shortly after takeoff.
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It has as much pressurized living and working space as a Boeing 747 passenger jet.
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It was the world's first fatal crash of a passenger jet airliner since November 2016.
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A fond farewell to the Airbus 380, the jumbo-iest passenger jet roaming the skies.
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Others described their visit on Wednesday to the arid farmland where the passenger jet crashed.
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The Boeing 737 passenger jet "had unstable vertical speed", Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said.
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Notably absent is the Comac C919 passenger jet, designed to compete with Airbus and Boeing.
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It is so big, she said, a passenger jet can see it from 218,22016 feet.
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Boeing has similarly all but given up on the 747-8 as a passenger jet.
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A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger jet flying to Jakarta from Bali crashed on Oct.
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The A321 passenger jet took off Monday from the company's new plant in Mobile, Ala.
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" And that "we don't stop talking about air safety after a passenger jet goes down.
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After initially denying responsibility, the country admitted that it unintentionally shot down the passenger jet.
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The Ireland-based company was the launch customer for the 196-passenger jet in 2014.
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It was a deserved designation, coming after the downing of a South Korean passenger jet.
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It was the second hijacking this year of a passenger jet in the Mediterranean region.
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COMAC previously said it had received 570 orders for the C919 passenger jet from 23 customers.
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Boeing has seen strong regional interest in a proposed new mid-sized passenger jet, he added.
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The windscreen of a Chinese passenger jet blew out while it was cruising at 32,000 feet.
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One of his stories, "The Passengers and the Creator", plays out on a Boeing passenger jet.
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"Chinese skies for the first time have welcomed a passenger jet developed by China," it said.
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The passenger jet later returned home with North Korean athletes who are competing in the Olympics.
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Iran faces a backlash at home and abroad after its downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet.
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We're covering the aftermath of Iran's admission that it shot down a passenger jet last week.
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Iran's government admitted to the accidental downing of the Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet on Jan.
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Regularly scheduled passenger jet service to Cuba had been cut off for more than 50 years.
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Boeing's problem is the tragedy of two fatal crashes involving its bestselling passenger jet, the 403 Max.
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But the attempted attack failed to bring down the passenger jet, landing in Detroit on Christmas Day.
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The passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off, killing all 157 people on board.
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Transport Minister Alain Vidalies added that there was no cargo on board the Airbus A320 passenger jet.
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A Reuters witness saw what appeared to be the passenger jet at the Maiquetia airport on Sunday.
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In preparation for a possible American counterstrike, Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet outside Tehran.
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Iran then fired missiles at American forces and mistakenly shot down a passenger jet, killing 176 people.
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Iran admitted early Saturday that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that had just left Tehran.
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Speculation is mounting about what caused a Ukrainian passenger jet to crash in Iran on Wednesday morning.
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It is similar to the one that shot down a passenger jet over Eastern Ukraine in 252.
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The protests came after Tehran admitted that it inadvertently shot down a passenger jet bound for Ukraine.
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Most have been civilians, including 298 people on a passenger jet shot down over Ukraine in 2014.
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General Electric (GE) could be prevented from continuing to supply engines for a new Chinese passenger jet.
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The Boeing 737 passenger jet, bound for Kyiv, went down shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday.
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Along with the twin-engine Airbus A330, the Boeing 777 has decimated four-engine passenger jet sales.
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That's how much pressure is on each square foot of a passenger jet at typical cruising altitude.
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A JetBlue Airways Corp passenger jet flew to Santa Clara, Cuba, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Aug. 31.
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The planemaker, meanwhile, said it had seen strong regional interest in a proposed new mid-sized passenger jet.
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Parvaresh added that IranAir will pay 15 percent of prices of the passenger jet from Iran's development fund.
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AeroTEC is working with Mitsubishi Aircraft to help it get the 90-seat passenger jet certified by regulators.
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The European aerospace giant Airbus has announced an upgraded version of the world's biggest passenger jet, the A380.
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Bellingcat claimed to have traced the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine to Russian action.
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And in the confusion, a Ukrainian civilian passenger jet was destroyed by an Iranian missile, killing 176 people.
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And in the confusion, a Ukrainian civilian passenger jet was destroyed by an Iranian missile, killing 252 people.
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General Electric (GE) – GE could be prevented from continuing to supply engines for a new Chinese passenger jet.
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Bailing out Mitsubishi Aircraft provides the funds needed to keep developing the passenger jet, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said.
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The meeting happened before Iran's military admitted accidentally shooting down an Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 passengers.
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Last week, Bombardier sold its stake in the A220 passenger jet programme to Airbus and the Quebec government.
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The crash on Sunday of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet killed all 157 people onboard.
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Low-poly plants and flowers were scattered around the environment while a gigantic passenger jet hung motionless above it.
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Al-Asiri is believed to have masterminded the attempted Christmas Day, 2009, bombing of a U.S.-bound passenger jet.
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Airbus has said it is exploring military applications for its A320neo passenger jet family, including a maritime patrol version.
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And in October 1999, an EgyptAir passenger jet made a rapid descent, plunging almost 14,000 feet in 36 seconds.
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Also: the markets react to Emmanuel Macron's election victory in France and China develops its first large passenger jet
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The crash of Boeing's passenger jet in Ethiopia raised the chances that families of the victims, even non-U.
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Boeing's 737 is the world's most-sold passenger jet family and is considered one of the industry's most reliable.
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People familiar with Boeing say the strategic importance of defending its core passenger jet business outweighs the fighter dispute.
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An interplanetary spacecraft doesn't have the same design restrictions as a passenger jet, so it may fly completely differently.
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Watch this passenger jet drift in high winds left by Irma Or don't, if you value your mental health.
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If the Emirates order materialises, it would keep the world's largest passenger jet in production for a further decade.
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Boeing, founded in 1916, dominated the passenger-jet market with its 737 midsize jet and the 747 jumbo jet.
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On July 2, 2002, a passenger jet collided in midair with a cargo plane over Germany, killing 71 people.
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Iran: Tehran halted its cooperation with Ukraine's inquiry into the downing of a passenger jet over Tehran last month.
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Information about who was on the passenger jet — Flight PS 752 — and what happened before the crash remain lacking.
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In 1983, crew members accidentally fuelled an Air Canada passenger jet using pounds, not kilogrammes, as the unit of measurement.
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Despite an array of aviation partnerships, China has failed to create a decent passenger jet even after years of trying.
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The Islamic State's affiliate in Egypt claimed to have brought down a Russian passenger jet in October, killing 224 people.
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According to Boeing, a major maker of passenger jet planes, more than 1,500 commercials flights had used biofuel since 2011.
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The Chinese passenger jet has been under development since 2919, and its maiden flight was about three years behind schedule.
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They have designed Aquila, an unmanned plane with the wingspan of a passenger jet but the weight of a car.
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The typical height for a passenger jet at that distance would be more than 2,000 feet, an aviation expert said.
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On July 3, 1988, the Vincennes, a Navy guided missile cruiser, shot down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people.
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And, for me, the drama of being on the world's largest passenger jet probably helped speed things up as well.
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A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed minutes after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday morning.
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The passenger jet crashed into a residential neighborhood in the city of Goma while taking off from the nearby airport.
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The passenger jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood in the city of Goma while taking off from the nearby airport.
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Boeing next month will temporarily stop making the 22020 Max, its most popular passenger jet, the company said on Monday.
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Russia plane crash At least 41 people were killed when a Russian passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in Moscow.
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Emirates is the A2350's biggest buyer and most vocal supporter within the airline industry of the world's largest passenger jet.
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One such case involved the Nigerian "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit in 2009.
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A passenger jet reportedly made a jaw-dropping landing fighting nearly 100-mile-per-hour winds in Japan over the weekend.
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Europe's Airbus is likely to acquire Bombardier's remaining stake in the A2700 passenger jet program, two industry sources said on Friday.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
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Separately, Boeing's commercial airplane division is under scrutiny in the wake of two 737 MAX passenger jet crashes in five months.
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He then allegedly fled from the cabin of the passenger jet into the cockpit and locked himself behind the bombproof doors.
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Boeing accuses Bombardier of dumping its new CSeries passenger jet in the U.S. aircraft market, a charge the Canadian firm denies.
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Harrison Ford nearly flew his private plane into a passenger jet at a California airport on Monday, according to NBC News.
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The missile test reportedly had a close call with an Air France passenger jet that had just passed the splashdown location.
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In March, a Chinese passenger jet carrying more than 200 people flew through the flight path of a North Korean rocket.
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The bill began ostensibly as a response to Islamic State's (IS) downing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last autumn.
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A passenger jet was forced to turn back after an in-flight problem left a gaping hole in the engine casing.
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To put it in perspective, the average passenger jet only flies around 21625,2900 feet or a little over 220006 miles up.
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Canada joins several other countries and airlines that have grounded the passenger jet in the wake of a crash in Ethiopia.
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But the talks collapsed, and the North bombed a South Korean passenger jet in 1987 in an attempt to disrupt them.
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Boeing has temporarily stopped making the plane, its most popular passenger jet, and lost orders for 87 commercial planes last year.
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Meanwhile, Dutch prosecutors said the Russian military supplied the missile that shot down a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014.
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Reports released from the two groups on Monday said that there were no deaths aboard commercial passenger jet airplanes in 2628.
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Reports released from the two groups on Monday said that there were no deaths aboard commercial passenger jet airplanes in 2023.
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Several Middle Eastern countries have shown interest in the passenger jet but no specific contracts have been signed yet, he said.
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A Russian plane maker has unveiled a new passenger jet that it believes will be able to compete with Boeing and Airbus.
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Two safety groups reported on Monday that worldwide there were no fatal passenger jet crashes in 2017, the safest year on record.
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Not a single person perished in a commercial passenger jet crash in 2017, making the year an extraordinarily safe one for flying.
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In March, Mr. Lubitz deliberately crashed a passenger jet operated by the Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings in France, killing himself and 149 others.
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In March 2014, Seoul said a passenger jet passed through the trajectory of a North Korean rocket in a "very dangerous" fashion.
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Boeing reported a smaller-than-expected second-quarter loss on Wednesday, helped by strong performances in its passenger jet and defense businesses.
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The U.S. space agency NASA is pushing for a new passenger jet that looks set to fill the void left by Concorde.
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ISIS claimed it had created a bomb brought down a Russian MetroJet passenger jet over the Sinai desert in Egypt in 20043.
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In October 2015, 224 people were killed when a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Boeing's new 26874-22017 seat 737 MAX 10 airplane is a response to Airbus' A321neo - the hugely popular narrow-body passenger jet.
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In a boost to the 544-seat passenger jet, Airbus said it had won three A380 orders from a "global leading airline".
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Demonstrations exploded again last month amid anger over the government's cover-up of its culpability in shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet.
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Iran admitted shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet with 176 people on board, which it says was the result of human error.
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But the view was even worse from 4,000 feet, as one passenger jet pilot soon learned flying through the storm Friday morning.
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We're covering Western intelligence agencies' belief that a passenger jet in Iran was shot down, and troubling internal messages from Boeing employees.
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The proposals could revive pressure on European planemaker Airbus to upgrade the world's largest passenger jet, the A22023 superjumbo, with new engines.
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Dutch aviation consulting firm To4123 and the Aviation Safety Network both reported Monday there were no commercial passenger jet fatalities in 2017.
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The Boeing 777 passenger jet had 349 passengers on board who disembarked via emergency exits, according to online news service Adelaide Advertiser.
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Harrison Ford is under federal investigation for landing his private plane on a taxiway and coming too close to a passenger jet.
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Like Saab and IAI, Boeing designed its aircraft around the bones of a civilian plane, in this case the ubiquitous 737 passenger jet.
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Firefighters douse a fire as smoke billows above the site where an Aeromexico-operated passenger jet crashed in Durango, Mexico, on July 31.
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A passenger jet has safely made an emergency landing at Mogadishu's international airport after an explosion pierced a large hole in its fuselage.
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Emirates is by far the largest buyer of the world's largest passenger jet, the A380, with 142 on order and 100 already delivered.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Boeing is experiencing upward pressure on production rates of its 737 single-aisle passenger jet, a senior executive said on Tuesday.
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The C919 passenger jet, China's bid to rival Boeing Co's 737 and the Airbus A320, completed its first long-distance flight in November.
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Zunum's hybrid-electric plane system and other projects underway, like Boom's supersonic passenger jet plan, could radically change our trips to the airport.
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Boom Technology, an aviation startup, unveiled today a subscale prototype of a supersonic passenger jet that aims to be the next generation Concorde.
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The Islamic State also claims to have downed a Russian passenger jet that crashed into the Sinai Desert in October, killing 224 people.
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It claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Russian passenger jet that crashed in October 2015 in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people.
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The IS affiliate is also believed to be behind the 2016 downing of a Russian passenger jet that killed 226 people over Sinai.
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Toulouse-based Airbus is reportedly offering China an industrial partnership if it places orders for the aircraft manufacturer's largest passenger jet, the A380.
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The France-based manufacturer is reportedly offering China an industrial partnership with the company if Beijing places orders for its largest passenger jet.
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Over Iranian territorial waters, the passenger jet was shot down by the Vincennes, a missile cruiser, which mistook it for an Iranian warplane.
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The Superjet entered service in 2011 and was the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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We're covering Iranian missile strikes against U.S. forces in Iraq and the crash of a Boeing passenger jet shortly after takeoff from Tehran.
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Low-cost carrier Interjet is one of the main foreign operators of Russias first post-Soviet passenger jet, which entered service in 2011.
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Measuring 252 feet (77 meters) from nose to tail, it's the longest passenger jet the company has produced in its 102-year history.
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Before joining the Pentagon last year, he spent three decades at Boeing and was the general manager for the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet.
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The Boeing 777 passenger jet had 349 passengers aboard who were disembarked via emergency exits, according to local online news service Adelaide Advertiser.
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And less than a month later, China's first domestically manufactured passenger jet took off from Shanghai's Pudong International Airport for its maiden voyage.
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His comments came shortly after Airbus announced it had reached a deal to buy the remaining stake of Bombardier's A220 passenger jet program.
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Boeing had bet its future on a revolutionary passenger jet, the 2787 Dreamliner, and the project was imperiled by delays and cost overruns.
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A lavishly financed state-owned enterprise, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or Comac, has developed a single-aisle passenger jet, the C919.
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An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, the airline said earlier.
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A Russian investigator walks near wreckage a day after a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg, Russia, crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Sunday, Nov.
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Any dispute over Canadian aid to Bombardier this time could also drag Boeing and Airbus, whose planes would compete with the CSeries passenger jet.
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But the missile may have posed a more immediate threat, flying within miles of the flight path that a passenger jet had just completed.
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NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun to explore designs for a new, quieter supersonic passenger jet (the Concorde's powerful supersonic booms limited its popularity).
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Here in the office, it's completely removed the hum of the air conditioning and will no doubt do wonders on a passenger jet engine.
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Metropolitan Police in London are investigating a possible midair collision between a passenger jet on approach to Heathrow Airport in London and a drone.
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Trade tensions weighed on cargo, where prices and profits are eroded by excess capacity - much of it in passenger jet holds and therefore inflexible.
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The backing by Airbus, which produces the world's biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, even more closely pits the European plane-maker against Boeing.
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The plane, a Boeing 707 passenger jet outfitted for cargo, was transporting lamb meat to Iran from Kyrgyzstan, the semiofficial news agency Mehr reported.
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To take a noteworthy example, a government-owned company, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, is developing a single-aisle passenger jet, the C919.
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But the film showed what it said was the Air China passenger jet that Mr. Kim rented from China for his flight to Singapore.
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MH17 trial: Four Russian former agents are being tried in absentia for the shooting down of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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We landed in Jakarta, the capital, where we connected with a passenger jet bound for Labuan Bajo, on the western tip of Flores island.
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For a time, the U.S. and Iran were at the brink of war, and Iran accidentally downed a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people.
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The Boeing 737-800 NG passenger jet, flown by Ukraine International Airlines, burst into flames shortly after take-off from Iran around 6 a.m.
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An Iranian general defended his government&aposs decision to lie for days about whether it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people.
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This chart from Deutsche Bank Securities chief economist Torsten Sløk tells the story: Meanwhile, a Ukrainian passenger jet made by Boeing crashed in Iran.
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Let's just use a height of 20 km—about twice as high as a passenger jet flies—and assume the air density is constant.
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A massive winter storm forced an Airbus A252, the world's largest passenger jet, to divert to a small New York airport around 2137 p.m.
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A senior airline official told CNN by phone on Thursday evening that debris found in the Mediterranean Sea was not from the passenger jet.
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The last fatal commercial jet crash in the U.S. occurred in 2009, when a passenger jet crashed in Clarence Center, N.Y., killing 21625 people.
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The Boeing planes, derived from the 707 passenger jet, are a modernized version of the E-3A model that entered service in the 1970s.
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The deal will pay for the delivery and sale and leaseback of four A380-800s, the world's largest passenger jet, Investec said in a statement.
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A Russian passenger jet was bombed shortly after takeoff from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
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Meanwhile on Wednesday, relatives of those killed in the 1988 downing of the Iranian passenger jet threw flowers into the Strait of Hormuz in mourning.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 193 The Boeing 777 passenger jet vanished on March 8, 2014, about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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Two were claimed by IS. An Egyptian passenger jet en route from Paris to Cairo went missing over the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.
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Ethiopian Airlines said Sunday that 2628 people were killed when a passenger jet headed from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed shortly after takeoff.
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About 67 seconds into the video, the plane rises quickly, barely missing a passenger jet on the runway that has just turned on its lights.
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In October, militants brought down a passenger jet carrying Russian tourists from the Sinai resort of Sharm el Sheikh, killing the 224 people on board.
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Delta Air Lines says it will still take delivery of a disputed Canadian passenger jet after European giant Airbus took a stake in the program.
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On July 17, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 people on board.
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The sector has been recovering after tourist numbers dropped in the wake of a 2011 uprising and the 2015 bombing of a Russian passenger jet.
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But the talks collapsed and the North bombed a South Korean passenger jet in 1987 in an attempt to disrupt the games in the South.
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Stepping outside the air-conditioned Pan American passenger jet into the brilliant sun, I felt as if I had been hit with a raging fever.
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That's what President Hassan Rouhani of Iran told top commanders who had been covering up the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran.
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"Covering up the mistake of downing the passenger jet with missiles was throwing acid at the image of the Islamic Republic," he said on Twitter.
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Photographs carried by Kazakh news outlets showed the fuselage of the passenger jet ripped to pieces in the snow amid the rubble of a building.
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Yesterday: President Hassan Rouhani of Iran called for a special court to examine the recent downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet by the Iranian military.
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Photographs of student victims of a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed in Iran are seen during a vigil at the University of Toronto, Jan. 123.
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Sixty-three Canadians are among the 176 dead after a passenger jet commuting from Iran to Ukraine went down shortly after taking off in Tehran.
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The flight was the first commercial passenger jet to connect the two countries directly and the 2350,93 miles took just over 29 hours to complete.
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It's based on the Boeing 737, the most-popular passenger jet ever, but it can do way more than take you from Boston to Baltimore.
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The last fatal commercial jet crash in the U.S. occurred in 85033, when a passenger jet crashed in Clarence Center, New York, killing 50 people.
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US officials believe a timer was used to trigger the bomb which brought down a Russian passenger jet leaving Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt in October 2015.
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A passenger jet "narrowly avoided" a collision with a drone after take-off from Liverpool airport, according to an investigation from the U.K. Airprox Board (UKAB).
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United Technologies — The company's Pratt & Whitney engine unit was criticized by Airbus, which is upset that engine issues have delayed deliveries of the A320neo passenger jet.
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As Matthew in "Four Weddings" (played by John Hannah) was reading from W.H. Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" at his partner's funeral, a passenger jet passed overhead.
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"We know from our work on the A350 XWB passenger jet that through biomimicry, nature has some of the best lessons we can learn about design."
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The court decision over whether Bombardier is dumping its new CSeries passenger jet in the U.S. aircraft market was expected to be made public on Tuesday.
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Boeing – Boeing shares may benefit after rival Airbus cut output of its A330 passenger jet and reported a drop in profits compared to a year earlier.
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Airbus will cease production of its 800-passenger, double-decker A380, the world's largest passenger jet, in 2021 after just 12 years in service, Bloomberg reports.
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According to Flightradar24, the Airbus A380, the largest passenger jet in the world, encountered the failure while the jet was flying at 37,000 feet near Greenland.
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This will blow you away Air France pilots had to abort a landing attempt after powerful winds kept a passenger jet from reaching the ground safely.
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Investigators say the pilot of Japan Airlines Flight 350, flying a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, intentionally crashed the passenger jet into Tokyo Bay, killing 24.
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Qatar Airways is the launch customer of Europe's largest twin-engined passenger jet and is scheduled to receive its first of 37 on order this year.
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The investigation into the crash is being closely watched as the Superjet was the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Just five months later, on March 10, 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.
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Iran said Tuesday that arrests were made in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed all 176 people aboard shortly after it left Tehran.
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On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States and its allies had intelligence showing that the passenger jet had been shot down.
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The United States accidentally downed an Iranian passenger jet in 21988, killing all 290 people aboard, amid a battle with Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf.
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Earlier on Thursday, European planemaker Airbus reached a deal to buy the remaining stake of Bombardier in the A220 passenger jet program for about $600 million.
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Mr. Pesquet had long dreamed of space travel, but at the time he was an airline pilot, flying the Airbus A320 passenger jet for Air France.
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Any deal would also follow Bombardier's decision last week to sell off its stake in the A220 passenger jet programme to Airbus and the Quebec government.
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A deal would also follow Bombardier's decision last week to sell off its stake in the A220 passenger jet program to Airbus and the Quebec government.
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CHICAGO/PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - American Airlines is set to order 50 of Airbus's new A321XLR passenger jet, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Shares in Boeing fell 7 percent in New York after some airlines grounded the company's new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet following Sunday's fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash.
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The passenger jet was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it was blown out of the sky over Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
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Even for as complex and pricey a machine as a passenger jet, assembly is a low-value proposition compared with making the parts that go into it.
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There was not a single plane crash involving a passenger jet in 2017, according to the Aviation Safety Network, the first time that has happened since 1957.
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The passenger jet was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it was blown out of the sky over Ukraine on July 20143, 2014.
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The passenger jet was headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it was was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
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Image 2 of 2 HAVANA – The Latest on the crash in Cuba of a passenger jet with 110 people on board (all times local): 2:30 p.m.
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In 1988 an American warship mistook a passenger jet operated by Iran Air for a military aircraft and shot it down, killing all 290 people on board.
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A letter from China's ministerial cabinet, read out after the plane landed, said the successful flight marked a "major breakthrough" and milestone for China's passenger jet industry.
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EgyptAir Flight 219 The Boeing 767 passenger jet crashed on October 31, 1999, en route from New York City to Cairo, killing all 217 people on board.
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The Pratt & Whitney engine unit of United Technologies (UTX) was criticized by Airbus, which is upset that engine issues have delayed deliveries of the A320neo passenger jet.
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A passenger jet flying at hypersonic speeds could revolutionize air travel by cutting down a transatlantic flight from New York to London from seven hours to two.
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While Toray is not among the most-recognized Japanese brands internationally, its strong, light carbon fiber materials are used in Boeing's 777X passenger jet and 787 Dreamliner.
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The statement came a day after an IATA summit to discuss the grounding of Boeing's top-selling passenger jet - the second such meeting held in recent weeks.
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Just over a week later, a drone flew within a few meters of a passenger jet on the final approach to land at the west London airport.
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The subsequent global grounding of the 737 Max, Boeing's most popular passenger jet, and the halting of its production are projected to cost the company $18 billion.
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A passenger jet belonging to Dubai's Emirates, the region's biggest airline, was involved in a January incident when two Qatari air force jets allegedly flew dangerously close.
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Just before Nicolay's gig at an Irish pub in a town called Kalush, he learned that Russian-backed rebels had shot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet.
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After Iran admitted to accidentally downing a Ukrainian passenger jet, Trump tweeted in Farsi to express support for anti-government demonstrations in Tehran and on university campuses.
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Secretary Pompeo confirmed on Friday that the United States and its allies have intelligence that the Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed in Iran had been shot down.
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The flights that the flight attendant reportedly worked were operated by the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet seating over 400 passengers in Korean Air's configuration.
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he did not believe that the passenger jet went down as a result of a mechanical error, according to CNBC.
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Since the Iranian response — which accidentally resulted in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet — the chance of a full-blown war with Iran has tamped down.
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Iran&aposs ministry of civil aviation says it needs additional technical support and equipment to study the flight recorders of a Ukrainian passenger jet accidentally shot down.
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Hours after Iran fired on U.S. military bases in Iraq in retaliation, it accidentally shot down a passenger jet leaving Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.
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Bombardier has asked Canada for $1 billion in aid to support its new CSeries passenger jet but Trudeau's new Liberal government has not yet announced a decision.
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PARIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China plans to stage the maiden flight of its C919 passenger jet on or around May 5, two people familiar with the project said.
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It has has also reached a deal to buy the remaining stake of Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier in the A20.8 passenger jet programme, it said.
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It is about serving as a foundation for the revival of Japan as a passenger jet manufacturer, rather than just a major supplier to companies like Boeing.
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Boeing Co, the best performing Dow component this year by a wide margin, dropped 13 percent after many airlines grounded the company's new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet.
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MONTREAL/PARIS Feb 7 (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus SE is likely to acquire Bombardier Inc's remaining stake in the A220 passenger jet program, two industry sources said on Friday.
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At the time, observers were quick to say the president's plans for the new paint job looked similar to his private passenger jet but with the colors inverted.
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HAVANA – The Cuban Health Ministry says the toll from the crash of a passenger jet in Cuba has risen to 112 after another survivor of the catastrophe died.
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Whining like a regular passenger jet, the twin-hulled catamaran of an airplane passed by owner Richard Branson, who stood clapping in an aviator jacket on the pavement.
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Its adherents have been involved in the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing on a U.S.-bound passenger jet and a 2010 attempt to smuggle explosives into cargo flights.
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A day after a Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet plunged to the ground, killing all 157 people aboard, the United States stressed it was safe to fly the planes.
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Enders has launched a company-wide compliance drive that led to British and French bribery probes into its passenger jet sales and has pledged to continue the campaign.
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The first time China attempted to build a large passenger jet, it tried — and failed — to reverse-engineer a Boeing 9197 that crash-landed in Xinjiang in 2500.
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Air France Flight 211 The Airbus A250 passenger jet disappeared on May 22000, 211, as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
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Dutch prosecutors say a BUK missile brought down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over east Ukraine in July 2014, though Russia denies its forces shot down the plane.
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Flying on a passenger jet in Africa is now about as safe as it would have been to board a European or American one about two decades ago.
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The pilot of a Lufthansa passenger jet reported that a drone had come within 61 metres (200 feet) of his A380 on its landing approach to Los Angeles.
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A little too close for comfort Newly released video shows an Air Canada flight barely missing a passenger jet on the taxiway as the pilot attempted to land.
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On Thursday, 21-year-old Niv Stobenzki uploaded a video to YouTube of a passenger jet landing at Israel's Sde Dov Airport, filmed from his DJI Mavic Pro.
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Mitsubishi considers its new passenger jet the logical extension of a business that has grown to encompass satellite-carrying rockets and large-scale subcontracting work on Boeing jets.
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February 22, 1974 - Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House.
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Asked why this had become so important, he said, "because there has been a lot of talk" about the future of the A380, the world's biggest passenger jet.
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London (CNN)A passenger jet approaching London's Gatwick Airport was forced to take evasive action after the pilot noticed a drone ahead, a near-miss report has revealed.
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Fiery landing in Moscow: At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing at an airport, partly engulfed in flames.
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That night, 10 black SUVs with armed escorts took the party straight to a Korean Air passenger jet, on the tarmac of the Kuala Lumpur airport, he said.
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The official news agency of the Iranian government appeared to confirm that a passenger jet crashed outside Tehran Wednesday morning, publishing a photograph allegedly from the crash scene.
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In fact, a British Airways flight broke the conventional passenger jet trans-Atlantic speed record, making the trip in 5 hours and 16 minutes, Dr. Williams pointed out.
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On Friday, a German Luftwaffe passenger jet left for China to evacuate more than 100 German citizens from Wuhan and Hubei province, according to the German foreign ministry.
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Iran&aposs president tweeted about a time the US accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet two days before Iran may have inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian flight.
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Iran has used bulldozers to move around pieces of debris from a crashed Ukrainian passenger jet, potentially destroying evidence which could help determine exactly what happened to it.
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US officials have said an Iranian missile most likely downed a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed Wednesday morning shortly after taking off from Tehran&aposs main international airport.
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MONTREAL, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Airbus sees enough demand for its wide-bodied A330neo passenger jet to keep production stable, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The manufacturer of China's first homegrown passenger jet is targeting Southeast Asian customers in an attempt to expand its customer base outside of the world's second-largest economy.
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The bigger problem, he said, is the degradation of those skills once pilots get into the cockpit of an advanced passenger jet and begin to rely on autopilot.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after take-off during what passengers have described as strong winds, hail and rain.
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Have you ever wondered why the only time most people fancy gulping down vodka, tomato juice and Worcestershire sauce is when strapped into the seat of a passenger jet?
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Emirates agreed with Airbus in February to cancel dozens of A380 orders and buy smaller A350s and A330s as the planemaker scrapped production of the world's largest passenger jet.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday.
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An international investigation led by the Netherlands concluded that the passenger jet - en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur - was brought down by a Russian surface-to-air missile.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Wednesday that the Trump administration's plan to abandon the Iran nuclear agreement will not hurt the company's production of its 737 passenger jet aircraft.
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The major Middle East carrier is the launch customer of Europe's largest twin-engined passenger jet and was scheduled to receive its first of 37 on order last year.
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Flightradar24 data shows Aeroflot has also at times substituted Airbus or Boeing planes for the Superjet, the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed.
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All 62 people on a Flydubai passenger jet out of Dubai were killed on Saturday when it crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport.
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MOSCOW — A trial of four men with ties to the Russian security services began on Monday for the shooting down of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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After an EgyptAir passenger jet plunged into the Mediterranean in 2016, killing all 66 people on board, Egypt blamed a bomb, then slowed the official investigation of the crash.
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Airbus, Boeing's main rival in the passenger jet business, said that it had provided false information to the State Department about its compliance with rules on arms sales overseas.
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The FAA said the charter flight, an MD-83 passenger jet, was bound for Washington-Dulles International Airport, near the location of the Big Ten men's college basketball tournament.
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Indonesian airline Garuda said it was canceling a $4.9 billion order for the passenger jet after the plane was involved in two deadly crashes in less than five months.
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Plane crash in Kazakhstan: At least 12 people were killed today when a passenger jet carrying 98 crashed into a building shortly after takeoff from the city of Almaty.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday expressed his administration's support to Iranian protesters outraged over their country's decision to shoot down a passenger jet, killing scores of Iranians on board.
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East Libyan officials had also warned of escalation after saying on Sunday that Misrata had seized a Libyan Airlines passenger jet that operates from the eastern city of Benghazi.
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The deal, marking the biggest shift in commercial aerospace in decades, would reshape a global passenger jet duopoly and reinforce Western planemakers against newcomers from China, Russia and Japan.
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The two sides are still far apart on reaching a deal on the firm's request for $1 billion to support its new CSeries passenger jet, say well-placed sources.
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The deal, marking the biggest shift in commercial aerospace in decades, would reshape a global passenger jet duopoly and reinforce Western planemakers against newcomers from China, Russia and Japan.
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Boeing and Embraer said last week they were discussing a "potential combination", in a move that would consolidate a global passenger jet duopoly provided Brazil's government gives its blessing.
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European planemaker Airbus has reached a deal to buy the remaining stake of Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier in the A220 passenger jet program, it said on Thursday.
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Making the system work meant shrinking the gallery to 480 faces, roughly the size of a modern passenger jet, at which point the miss rate shrank to just 1 percent.
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The night's main story, echoing real-life headlines from not too long ago, involved a passenger jet that was thought to have crashed into the ocean but was never found.
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Beaudoin on Friday declined to comment on the funding talks, saying only that he urged Canada to match Quebec's pledge to put $1 billion into the CSeries passenger jet program.
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I heard the first hijacked passenger jet smash into the north tower on September 29, and saw the second jet slice through the 211-story levels of the south tower.
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In non-robo news, we get a tour of all the tools and tricks that keep Nascar races racy, and bid adieu to the 380, Airbus' freakishly large passenger jet.
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But on Thursday, Egypt found itself in a dark, if familiar, place when an EgyptAir passenger jet disappeared from radar and crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.
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Others, such as Japan's Mitsubishi Aircraft, are keeping a lid on expectations, wary of competition from the ARJ2195, China's first homegrown passenger jet, which COMAC put into service this year.
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Boeing accuses Bombardier of dumping its new CSeries passenger jet in the U.S. market and says the aircraft is being unfairly subsidized by Canada, a charge the Canadian firm denies.
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The defense and passenger jet maker announced an order for 20 737 MAX 10 jets from GE Capital Aviation Services, the commercial aircraft leasing and financial arm of General Electric.
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Mr. Trump's claim came on the heels of two reports that there were no fatal commercial passenger jet accidents in 2017; however, there were several fatal crashes involving smaller planes.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday afternoon.
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Its wings are so long that it wouldn't have been able to fit at most airports were it not for a unique feature never before seen on a passenger jet...
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Boeing conceived the aircraft in the mid-1960s when it was designed to be the next step up from the similarly four-engined and widely popular Boeing 707 passenger jet.
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The European aircraft maker is slowing output of the A4003, the world's largest passenger jet, due to weak demand, while its A400M has been beset by delays and cost overruns.
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It could also spell the end for Boeing's struggling 22040-8 passenger jet and freighter and force the U.S. planemaker to upgrade at least one of its two smaller freighters.
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PARIS/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Airbus is in talks with U.S.-based private equity firm Indigo Partners about a potential sale of its new A321XLR passenger jet, industry sources said on Thursday.
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LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - Boeing may win a significant reconfirmation of support from a buyer of the 737 MAX passenger jet at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday, an industry source said.
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These planes are an original model of the 737 passenger jet being converted to cargo use -- they are not the 737 Max jet that has been grounded due to safety concerns.
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Not a single person died in passenger jet airliner accidents in 2017, according to reports released by the two Dutch aviation groups — the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) and consulting firm To70.
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The European planemaker is close to a deal to sell 37 of the current version of the A321 passenger jet to Delta Air Lines, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Island authorities say they have identified 20 bodies and recovered all human remains from the field next to Havana&aposs international airport where a passenger jet crashed Friday, killing 110 people.
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Ford, 74, came under investigation after he mistakenly flew his single-engine private plane over an American Airlines passenger jet and landed on a taxiway, rather than a runway, on Feb.
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Last month, ISIS claimed to have planted a bomb at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport that prompted an evacuation of a passenger jet, although authorities said it was a false alarm.
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Boeing Co tumbled 8.9 percent in premarket trading after many airlines grounded the world's biggest planemaker's new 213.25 MAX 20.19 passenger jet following the second deadly crash in just five months.
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A passenger jet run by Flydubai under the code FZ981 has crash-landed at Rostov-on-Don airport in southern Russia, killing all 55 passengers and seven crew members on board.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - An American Airlines passenger jet was diverted to an airport in eastern Canada on Sunday after hitting severe turbulence and seven people were taken to hospital, the airline said.
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TRIPOLI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - An Airbus A319 passenger jet belonging to Libya's Afriqiyah Airways was damaged by artillery fire during clashes between rival armed groups at Tripoli's Mitiga airport on Monday.
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Reuters reported that a Syrian passenger jet flew safely between Syria and Tunisia for the first time in almost eight years on Thursday, a sign of the country's stabilizing security situation.
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No indicated available Chief Executive Tom Enders has warned staff of a possible cut in commercial helicopter production, following a recent cut in output for the slow-selling A380 passenger jet.
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That's nothing compared to the Concorde, the supersonic passenger jet that once flew from New York to London in just 256.4 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds, according to British Airways.
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Airbus, the European manufacturer of the world's largest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, operates a website called iflyA380, giving passengers a list of routes and airlines using the super jumbo jet.
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What he didn't realize at the time was that they shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian Iranian passenger jet, killing all 290 people on board and causing international outrage.
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International prosecutors have indicted three men with ties to Russian military and intelligence agencies in the destruction of the passenger jet and implicated, without charging, a senior aide to Mr. Putin.
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The C919, China's bid to break the Airbus and Boeing duopoly in the narrow-body passenger jet market, has not yet obtained an airworthiness certification and is not yet in service.
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Each turbine blade will have the wingspan equal to the world's largest passenger jet, according to this brief Dominion Energy video that demonstrates the science behind the offshore wind farm construction.
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Iran announced Tuesday that it has begun making arrests of suspects believed to be responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet amid swelling protests against the country&aposs regime.
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In addition to arresting individuals accused of bringing down the passenger jet, Iran has also arrested a few dozen protesters, as crowds take to the streets to protest the Iranian regime.
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WASHINGTON — Iran's missile strikes this week on two Iraqi military bases and suspected role in the takedown of a Ukraine-bound passenger jet, stand as examples of Tehran's ballistic missile capability.
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Meanwhile Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer told Reuters on Wednesday that the world's largest planemaker sees enough demand for its wide-bodied A330neo passenger jet to retain stable production levels.
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In September 1983, the Soviet Union shot down a Korean passenger jet that had strayed into its airspace, claiming it was a spy plane, and killing all 85033 people on board.
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The fiery crash of the aging Boeing passenger jet shortly after takeoff from Havana killed 110 of the 113 on board, making it Cuba's deadliest air disaster in nearly 30 years.
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Reuters last month reported the Malaysian low-cost carrier was in negotiations to buy the new longer-range version of the A321 passenger jet, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
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His namesake, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who famously landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River in New York City in 2009, stopped by to meet the dog and wish him well.
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Reuters correspondents saw the Swiss air force Dassault Falcon passenger jet land carrying the freed men taxi to stop close to a U.S. Air Force plane that had arrived on Saturday evening.
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All 103 passengers and crew survived when the Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway during takeoff on Tuesday, evacuating the plane before it caught fire.
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Two failed terror plots to blow up a passenger jet and release a toxic gas in Australia were inspired and directed by a senior ISIS controller in Syria, Australian police said Friday.
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Although commercial aviation is safer than ever—in 2017 there were no fatal passenger-jet crashes—the airline industry knows that the risk of accidents due to suicidal employees has remained high.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japan Airline Boeing 737 passenger jet aborted a take-off and evacuated passengers at Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan after smoke from its right engine entered the cabin.
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PARIS/CHICAGO, June 13 (Reuters) - Airbus is in talks with U.S.-based private equity firm Indigo Partners about a potential sale of its new A321XLR passenger jet, industry sources said on Thursday.
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Mexican authorities temporarily suspended a charter company which owned a passenger jet that crashed in Cuba, while Cuban media said one of three survivors died Monday, increasing the death toll to 111.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's self-developed C919 passenger jet completed its first long-distance flight on Friday, in a milestone that its manufacturer said marks the plane's move into an airworthiness certification phase.
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Shares of Boeing sank 9 percent in premarket trading on Monday as some airlines grounded the planemaker's best selling 737 MAX 8 passenger jet following the second deadly crash involving the plane.
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Relatives gathered to mourn the 62 victims of a passenger jet crash in southern Russia on Sunday and officials warned an investigation could take weeks to determine the cause of the downing.
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Boeing has also been in the public eye due to two fatal crashes within five months — the latest of which was Sunday — involving its commercial passenger jet, the Boeing 6900 Max 2628.
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There is also a role here for international media reporting on Russia, as was vividly demonstrated with the story of MH17, the passenger jet shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.
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Reporters on the ground quickly concluded that an antiaircraft missile launched from separatist-controlled territory (probably mistaking the passenger jet for a Ukrainian military aircraft) was the likely cause of the tragedy.
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Bellingcat was founded in July 2014, three days before a surface-to-air missile blew a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet out of the sky over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
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MH17 trial: In The Hague, four men with ties to the Russian security services are being tried in absentia for the shooting down of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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A passenger jet crashed shortly after take-off from Iran&aposs Imam Khomeini airport with at least 224 passengers and crew aboard, IRNA, Iran&aposs state news agency, said on Tuesday evening.
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MOSCOW — A passenger jet carrying 98 people crashed into a building shortly after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan on Friday morning, killing at least 12 people and injuring scores more.
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Security forces fired on protesters in Tehran on Sunday, the second day of demonstrations after Iran's military, citing human error, acknowledged firing the missiles that brought down a passenger jet last week.
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During a bout of Middle East tension in 1988, the USS Vincennes on patrol in the Persian Gulf accidentally shot down an Iranian civilian passenger jet, killing all 290 people on board.
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Zero deaths were reported for passenger jet travel in 220006, making it the safest year on record for commercial aviation, according to the Dutch aviation group To2202 and the Aviation Safety Network.
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It was also bad news for Boeing at the end of a week when the company announced it would temporarily halt production of the 737 Max, the company's most popular passenger jet.
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The federal government is under enormous pressure from the province of Quebec, which last year invested $1 billion in the firm's CSeries passenger jet for a nearly 50 percent stake in the project.
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Lewis also said Honeywell remained interested in China's C919 passenger jet program, manufactured by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC), as the company was already supplying parts to the upcoming narrowbody jet.
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A focus on that trademark midsection C-23PO enjoys, with its exposed wiring and large circular sternum detail, proved the most effective way to translate his essential droidness onto a gigantic passenger jet.
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On Wednesday, Iran marked the shootdown by the U.S. Navy of an Iranian passenger jet in 1988, a mistake that killed 290 people and shows the danger of miscalculation in the current crisis.
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Delivery of Europe's largest twin-engined passenger jet to launch customer Qatar Airways had been delayed from late last year to some time next month due to issues with installing business class seats.
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In November the company and Russia's United Aircraft Corp unveiled a life-sized model of a proposed widebody longhaul jet, and in December COMAC'S C919 narrowbody passenger jet completed its first test flight.
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Boeing tumbled nearly 256.52 percent in premarket trading after a host of airlines grounded the world's biggest planemaker's new 21 MAX 266.41 passenger jet following the second deadly crash in just five months.
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Torrential rain was also blamed for the collapse of a 117-year-old building that killed 34 people, and water-logging last week that disrupted flights after a passenger jet overshot a runway.
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Airbus bowed to weak demand for its A330 passenger jet on Friday, announcing a cut in production for 2019 after a series of bruising defeats to Boeing in contests for wide-body jets.
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Boeing and Embraer's commercial aviation partnership, which would consolidate a global passenger jet duopoly, has been approved by the Brazilian government and by Embraer's shareholders but still needs regulatory approval from several countries.
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Airbus bowed to weak demand for its A330 passenger jet on Friday, announcing a cut in production for 1003 after a series of bruising defeats to Boeing in contests for wide-body jets.
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The engine of a SkyWest passenger jet caught fire moments after the aircraft landed at Denver International Airport on Sunday, but all 63 people aboard exited the plane safely, an airline spokeswoman said.
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That passenger jet, Embraer's biggest ever, enters service in 2019 targeting the same market as Bombardier's CSeries, which got a boost last month when Airbus SE took a majority stake in the program.
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LE BOURGET, France, June 18 (Reuters) - Boeing may win a significant reconfirmation of support from a buyer of the 737 MAX passenger jet at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday, an industry source said.
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A passenger jet crashed shortly after take-off from Iran&aposs Imam Khomeini airport with at least 22019 passengers and crew aboard, IRNA, Iran&aposs state news agency, said on Wednesday local time.
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"Danley boarded a Philippine Airlines passenger jet in Manila, where she had traveled to before the shooting rampage, for a non-stop flight to Los Angeles," where she was met by FBI agents.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday that the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Iran reinforced the importance of de-escalating tensions in the Middle East.
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Jamie Finch, formerly with the National Transportation Safety Board, discusses the latest intelligence and investigative options tied to the Boeing 737 passenger jet that fell out of the sky this week in Tehran.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet by Iranian forces was an "unforgivable" mistake and vowed that members of the armed forces would be held accountable.
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Iran's military announced early Saturday that it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, blaming human error because of what it called the plane's sharp, unexpected turn toward a sensitive military base.
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And while that anger was briefly redirected after the killing of a top general by the U.S., it quickly refocused on the Iranian authorities after they admitted to shooting down a passenger jet.
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PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus has reached a deal to buy the remaining stake of Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier in the A220 passenger jet programme, it said on Thursday.
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A video circulating on social media and private chats in the messaging app Telegram appears to show the moment a surface-to-air missile struck a Ukrainian passenger jet near Tehran early Wednesday.
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While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel flew a chartered El Al passenger jet to Washington, Mr. Gantz, the former Israeli military chief, flew commercial and had a three-hour layover in Zurich.
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The state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or Comac for short, has secured more than 700 orders for its 168-seat C919 passenger jet, expected to have its first delivery in 2021.
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Boeing will buy a controlling stake in the commercial aircraft arm of Brazilian planemaker Embraer under a new $4.75-billion joint venture, the companies said on Thursday, cementing a global passenger jet duopoly.
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It faced a cash crunch in 2015 while bringing a new plane to market, and it has already sold its stake in the A220 passenger jet programme to Airbus and the Quebec government.
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Analysts have a generally positive view of the company's prospects because of a large backlog of orders, and because sales of newer designs like the A350 wide-body passenger jet are gaining momentum.
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The order for Boeing's 22s marks a new setback for Airbus in an intense battle for widebody orders as the European planemaker seeks to strengthen the order book for its upgraded A2100neo passenger jet.
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FedEx is grounding one of its planes temporarily that has an engine General Electric flagged after a passenger jet erupted in flames last month, a spokesman for the cargo airline told Reuters on Monday.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar pilot safely landed a passenger jet without its front wheels on Sunday, after landing gear on the Myanmar National Airlines plane failed to deploy, the airline and an official said.
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After the passenger jet was on the ground and its 80 passengers disembarked, authorities examined the damage and concluded that the crumpled side of the nose cone was in fact caused by a drone.
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Around 1,000 of the plant's employees work on carbon fibre wings for the A220 next-generation passenger jet, which was known as the CSeries until Airbus took control of the project in July 2018.
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Sully is named after former airline pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, who became famous for landing a damaged passenger jet on the Hudson River and saving all 155 passengers and crew aboard in 2009.
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But he has also caught the eye of lawmakers as of late, as Boeing's 737 Max 8 commercial passenger jet was involved in two fatal crashes within five months, killing more than 300 people.
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As Seoul prepared to host the 1988 Summer Games, Pyongyang tried to scare the world away by detonating a time bomb on a South Korean passenger jet, killing all hundred and fifteen people onboard.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 model.
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Direct flights between Russia and Egypt have been suspended since October 2015, when a Russian passenger jet traveling from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg was downed in mid-air, killing all 224 passengers.
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A little after the first meal, Marie Carroll, the researcher leading the passenger jet-lag study, brought all the participants to the empty rear galley for a short group exercise, including stretches and squats.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus is preparing to roll out a novel A2350 wingtip design to rally support for the world's largest passenger jet by improving its fuel efficiency, according to a prototype seen on Saturday.
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As regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration reviewed designs for Boeing's newest passenger jet, they paid extra attention to several features, including the lithium batteries, the pressure fueling system and the inflatable safety slides.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi that crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard "had unstable vertical speed", Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said.
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I hadn't pulled an all-nighter since a suicidal pilot had crashed a Germanwings passenger jet into the French Alps nearly two years ago, but the adrenaline of the story had me wide awake.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people aboard, "was a terrible tragedy," a senior Trump administration official said on Saturday, after Tehran admitted mistakenly shooting down the aircraft.
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That anger was redirected in the past week after the killing of a top general by the U.S., but it refocused on the Iranian authorities after they admitted accidentally shooting down a passenger jet.
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On July 3, 143, as American and Iranian forces battled in the Persian Gulf, the United States Navy accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet, Iran Air Flight 655, which was bound for Dubai.
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Soaring tensions between Iran and the United States are already complicating the investigation into what caused a Ukrainian passenger jet to crash on the outskirts of Tehran Wednesday, killing all 20167 people on board.
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Should the death toll from the crash be confirmed, it would make it the deadliest passenger jet incident since a LaMia charter carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashed near Medellin, Colombia in November 2016.
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United Airlines announced an order for 08553 A321XLR jets to fly between the U.S East Coast and Europe, becoming the latest U.S. airline to ink a deal for the European planemaker's new passenger jet.
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When Florida restaurateur Damon DeSantis and his wife, Cindy, wanted to bring 56 friends on a week-long adventure in Europe, they chartered a Boeing 777 passenger jet and a 280-foot cruise ship.
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Per the New York Times, this was the first-ever scheduled passenger jet service from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century; those on-aboard are now a part of history.
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The fatality rate on passenger jet aircraft worldwide jumped in 2189 after airlines recorded zero accident deaths on passenger jets in the prior year, according to a Dutch consulting firm and an aviation safety group.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders did not answer directly when asked at a briefing if Trump's White House predecessor, Barack Obama, also deserved credit for the long stretch without a U.S. commercial passenger jet crash.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's C919 passenger jet, the symbol of its lofty aviation ambitions, has passed a major technical assessment, and has moved closer to its first flight, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Up until this point, HTT has only released renderings and cool illustrations of its system, which purports to use passive magnetic levitation to shoot passenger-filled tubes through an airless tube at passenger jet-speeds.
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All 22009 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's home-built C2919 passenger jet completed its third test flight on Friday, its manufacturer said, bringing the Asian nation a step closer to its goal of becoming a global civil aerospace player.
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Before joining the Pentagon, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who is expected to be named to the post, worked for 31 years at Boeing, where he was general manager for the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet.
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The companies, already long-term partners on projects such as the A350 passenger jet powered by the Trent XWB engine, will work together on aircraft architecture to test the engine and on maximizing its efficiency.
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All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
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Emirates cut frequencies to five U.S. cities last year, blaming new U.S. restrictions on citizens of some Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., and curbs on carrying large electronic devices in passenger jet cabins.
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The only three survivors of Cuba&aposs worst aviation disaster in three decades are clinging to life a day after their passenger jet carrying 110 people crashed in a fireball in Havana&aposs rural outskirts.
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Officials say 113 people were on a charter passenger jet hired by Cuba&aposs state-run airline, Cubana de Aviacion, when it crashed Friday in the rural outskirts of Havana killing all but three aboard.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue workers have detected a 22-metre long object underwater in area where a Lion Air passenger jet with 189 people on board crashed, a navy official said on Wednesday.
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The FBI initially said the disturbance that Uskanli caused was serious enough for two U.S. warplanes to be scrambled to escort the passenger jet to Hawaii but provided few details of the incident until Monday.
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Boeing woes: Boeing has also been in the public eye due to two fatal crashes within five months -- the latest of which was on Sunday -- involving its commercial passenger jet, the Boeing 737 Max 8.
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Britain advised against flying to the airport last November after the suspected bombing of a Russian passenger jet in October 2015 killed 224 people shortly after it had taken off from Sharm el Sheikh airport.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Thursday said that after taking over Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA's passenger jet unit, it will call the division Boeing Brasil - Commercial, dropping one of Brazil's most iconic company names.
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PARIS, April 19 (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus is close to a deal to sell 37 of the current version of the A321 passenger jet to Delta Air Lines, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 indicated an Ilyushin IL-62 passenger jet and an Antonov AN-124 military cargo plane both departed from Russian military airport Chkalovsky for Caracas on Friday, according to the news service.
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The European plane manufacturer announced the plans at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $28500 million factory, which will neighbor an existing site that builds its A6900 passenger jet and employs 2628 people, according to Reuters.
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The Demonstrator will be a human piloted, 1/3 scale prototype of the eventual 45-passenger jet craft it aims to use for commercial service, with Virgin Galactic as its first paying customer for planes.
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A court in Cyprus ordered on Friday the deportation of an Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger jet, forcing it to divert to Cyprus and demanding to see his former wife, who lives there.
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SEOUL/MONTREAL (Reuters) - As Air France pilots fought for control, an Airbus A330 passenger jet plummeted from 38,000 feet for four minutes, its engines running but its wings unable to seize enough air to fly.
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Islamic State has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police in its four-year Sinai insurgency, and is blamed for the 2016 bombing of a Russian passenger jet that killed all 224 people on board.
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The Maori-owned Shotover Jet races on the Shotover River in depths as shallow as about four inches in a 743-passenger jet boat, then enters the narrow canyons where the company has exclusive access.
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The Egyptian military said Friday that debris has been found from the EgyptAir passenger jet that disappeared from radar the day before while flying from Paris to Cairo with 85033 passengers and crew on board.
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The November protests were triggered by a 300% hike in fuel prices, and the latter after Iranian forces admitted to unintentionally shooting down a passenger jet with 176 people on board — the majority Iranian citizens.
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Iran has had a tumultuous few months with anti-government protests erupting in November and a passenger jet being shot down by Iran's Revolutionary Guard at the height of tensions with the U.S. amid Gen.
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LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday that the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Iran reinforced the importance of de-escalating tensions in the Middle East.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration invited continued feedback from global regulators at a Boeing 737 Max briefing on Monday about the steps needed to return the grounded passenger jet to flight after two fatal crashes.
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Boeing is investing in hypersonics as well but not just in missile technology: The aerospace giant is working on a hypersonic passenger jet that could fly between Los Angeles and Tokyo in roughly three hours.
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The last fatal passenger jet airliner accident worldwide took place in November 2016 near Medellin, Colombia and the last commercial passenger aircraft crash to kill more than 100 people occurred in October 2015 in Egypt.
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SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A JetBlue Airways Corp passenger jet landed in Santa Clara, Cuba on Wednesday, becoming the first scheduled passenger flight from the United States in more than a half century.
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Before joining the Pentagon, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who is expected to be named to the post, worked for 31 years at Boeing, where he was general manager for the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet.
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While authorities dismissed claims that ISIS brought down a Russian passenger jet above Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in October 2015, U.S. intelligence analysis suggests that the terror group or its affiliates planted a bomb on the plane.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Plans to send China's home-built C919 passenger jet on its third test flight have been delayed due to bad weather, a Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) official told Reuters on Thursday.
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Bombardier stock has declined more than 33 percent year to date, trading at 89 Canadian cents in Toronto on Wednesday, as it has struggled to find buyers for its new 100-150 seat CSeries passenger jet.
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PA) is considering adding extra endurance to the longest-range version of its A321 passenger jet in a further effort to pre-empt a potential new mid-market jet being studied by U.S. rival Boeing (BA.
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The statement from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) came a day after an IATA summit to discuss the grounding of Boeing's top-selling passenger jet, which has disrupted plans and hit profits at several airlines.
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The fiery crash of the aging Boeing passenger jet shortly after takeoff from Havana on Friday killed all but three of the 113 people on board, making it Cuba's deadliest air disaster in nearly 30 years.
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Risk assessment Should a North Korean missile come close to a passenger jet, it's "probably not something you would be able to detect like you detect another aircraft," a Hong Kong-based commercial pilot told CNN.
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Fears were first raised in September, when a civilian drone, flying above the 85033 feet recommended by the FAA, collided with a U.S. Army helicopter; and again in October, after a drone hit a passenger jet.
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Also, Airbus has failed to break an impasse with AirAsia over the fate of a multi-billion-dollar order seen as key to the future of its A330neo passenger jet, people familiar with the matter said.
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That decline -- and resulting affects on airlines which rely on the passenger jet — is estimated to be so impactful that it could drag down the entire United States GDP for the second quarter, JPMorgan analysts said.
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An Ilyushin IL-62 passenger jet and an Antonov AN-124 military cargo plane left for Caracas on Friday from Russian military airport Chkalovsky, stopping along the way in Syria, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.
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They also found evidence that a Russian officer had been in a Kuala Lumpur hotel near where Malaysian government officials were investigating the 2014 crash of the passenger jet over Ukraine that killed nearly 300 people.
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When the South last hosted the Olympics, in 1988, North Korea attempted to disrupt the event, most notably by detonating a bomb on a Korean Air passenger jet, killing 115 people, less than a year earlier.
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The delivery of Japan's first passenger jet in half a century has been pushed back six times as Mitsubishi Aircraft and its chief shareholder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd have contended with a series of design missteps.
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The delivery of Japan's first passenger jet in half a century has been pushed back six times as Mitsubishi Aircraft and its chief shareholder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd have contended with a series of design missteps.
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Boeing has reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX passenger jet to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is under mounting scrutiny following the two deadly nose-down crashes and revised pilot training.
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The company is also awaiting a U.S. trade court's preliminary ruling, expected to be made public on Tuesday, on Boeing Co's complaint that Bombardier is dumping its new CSeries passenger jet in the U.S. aircraft market.
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On Saturday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard acknowledged that it accidentally shot down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet last week — killing all 176 on board — after launching missile attacks on two Iraqi military bases housing American troops.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators should block Boeing's $4.2 billion purchase of Embraer's commercial passenger jet division or demand hefty concessions, the head of Brazilian investor group Abradin said, calling it a killer acquisition.
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Shanahan, best known for his focus on internal Pentagon reform and his private-sector experience, had spent three decades at Boeing and was general manager for the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet before he joined the Pentagon.
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Boeing Co struck a deal for a controlling stake in the commercial aircraft arm of Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA under a new $4.75 billion joint venture, the firms said on Thursday, reshaping a global passenger jet duopoly.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he welcomed murder charges brought against four suspects over the 2014 downing of the MH17 passenger jet over eastern Ukraine, and said he hoped they would stand trial.
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SHANGHAI, April 26 (Reuters) - The maiden flight of China's C919 passenger jet is scheduled for early May, the Shanghai Airport Authority said on its official microblog on Wednesday, the first official confirmation of the much-anticipated event.
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According to CNBC, Russell had worked for Horizon Air for more than three years de-icing, towing, and loading luggage onto planes, and had finished up his shift on Friday before stealing the 76-person passenger jet.
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SAO PAULO, May 23 (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Thursday said that after taking over Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA's passenger jet unit, it will call the division Boeing Brasil - Commercial, dropping one of Brazil's most iconic company names.
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Combined with a new spaceship, which would contain more pressurised cabin space than an Airbus A380, the biggest passenger jet currently flying, Mr Musk reckoned he could deliver perhaps 100 people to the Martian surface per flight.
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RE-WIRING The plane's latest delay, announced in January, can be dated back more than 225 years - six years before Mitsubishi even considered a passenger jet - when a Boeing 2750 plunged into the Atlantic, killing 230 people.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Relatives gathered to mourn the 62 victims of a passenger jet crash in southern Russia on Sunday and officials warned an investigation could take weeks to determine the cause of the downing.
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LE BOURGET, France, June 17 (Reuters) - Airbus will launch a long-range version of its A321neo passenger jet at Paris Airshow and will announce close to 200 orders over the week, sources familiar with the matter said.
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JAKARTA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue workers have detected a 22-metre long object underwater in area where a Lion Air passenger jet with 189 people on board crashed, a navy official said on Wednesday.
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Boeing Co, the best performing Dow component this year by a wide margin, slumped 7.4 percent after many airlines grounded the company's new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet after a second deadly crash in just five months.
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Boeing said last week that it was reprogramming software on its 737 MAX passenger jet to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is under mounting scrutiny following the two deadly nose-down crashes.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's home-grown C919 passenger jet landed successfully in Shanghai after an 80-minute maiden flight on Friday, a major step for Beijing as it looks to boost its profile in the global aviation market.
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The change of identity came in a slick branding ceremony as the Canadian-developed passenger jet performed a flypast in searing heat over Airbus's Toulouse facilities, with executives papering over past differences over prospects for the jet.
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Boeing Co struck a deal for a controlling stake in the commercial aircraft arm of Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA under a new $06003 billion joint venture, the firms said on Thursday, reshaping a global passenger jet duopoly.
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The top decliner on the Bovespa was planemaker Embraer , down nearly 219.3273% as it signaled it may issue a smaller dividend as it burns through cash before finalizing a $21.14 billion commercial passenger jet deal with Boeing.
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Officers operating near Red Square sought to hack the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, the officials said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) said on Wednesday it will not analyse the black box from the Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet which crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday.
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MOSCOW — Forty-one people were killed on Sunday when a Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, trailing a gigantic plume of flame and black smoke and skidding to a stop on fire.
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Investigators sifting through the wreckage of an Aeromexico passenger jet on Wednesday located the plane's flight recorders, which may hold clues about what caused it to crash as it took off during stormy weather in northern Mexico.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Indonesian airline Garuda said Friday that it's canceling a multibillion-dollar order for Boeing's 2189 Max 2157 passenger jet after the plane was involved in two deadly crashes in less than five months.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's main home-grown passenger jet, the Sukhoi Superjet 100, conceived as a rival to Airbus, Bombardier and Embraer, has no confirmed orders this year beyond a long-standing deal with state carrier Aeroflot ALTR.
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The spy, who was placed by Israel inside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), provided intelligence on an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet plane to the United States, ABC reported Tuesday.
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Boeing said on Wednesday that it had reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX passenger jet to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is under mounting scrutiny following the two deadly nose-down crashes.
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JAKARTA, Nov 20123 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities on Sunday extended by three days the search for the victims and a black box from the wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed last week, killing all 189 people on board.
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Photo: APFacebook has abandoned a key portion of its Aquila project, an effort to build solar-powered, passenger jet-sized drones that would wirelessly connect parts of the developing world to the internet, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.
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The passenger jet landed without incident and no bomb was found on board, an Israeli security official said, adding that Israel had previously determined that the scare was bogus and required no unusual measures by the flight crew.
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MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) - All 244 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
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Boeing said it has reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX passenger jet to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is under mounting scrutiny following the two deadly nose-down crashes and revised pilot training.
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DURANGO, Mexico (Reuters) - At least 65 U.S. citizens were aboard the Aeromexico passenger jet that crashed in northern Mexico, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as investigators combed the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.
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PARIS, April 27 (Reuters) - The finance director of Airbus on Thursday rebuked Pratt & Whitney for engine problems that have delayed deliveries of its A7003neo passenger jet and reserved judgment about how quickly planned fixes would resolve the issue.
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According to the BBC, the air traffic control tower began to shake and everyone fled the tower except Agung, who waited until the passenger jet was airborne before jumping out of the fourth floor of the collapsing building.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A piece of suspected plane wreckage found off the coast of southern Thailand does not belong to a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that disappeared almost two years ago, the Malaysian transport ministry said on Tuesday.
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Airbus unveiled an upgraded version of the world's biggest passenger jet on Sunday, seeking to boost demand for the slow-selling superjumbo and including a new wingtip design aimed at reducing fuel burn by up to 4 percent.
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The province of Quebec - where the firm has its headquarters - unveiled a $1 billion investment in the company's CSeries passenger jet last October and wants Ottawa to do the same to help protect thousands of well-paid jobs.
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The narrow-body aircraft, which will compete with Boeing's 737 and the Airbus A320, is a symbol of China's ambitions to penetrate the global passenger jet market, estimated to be worth $2 trillion over the next 5903 years.
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After the company was bought for $550 million in 2015 by China-based Genting Hong Kong, it embarked on a dizzying expansion plan that included a private 88-passenger jet called the Crystal Skye, river ships and more.
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MOSCOW — Russian officials said on Saturday that all 61 people on board a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport.
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The Rossiya-1 television channel said late Friday that it had obtained a transcript of the pilot interactions a minute before the FlyDubai passenger jet nose-dived to the ground, killing all the passengers and crew members onboard.
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Iranian officials knew their military had shot down a passenger jet and lied about it for days, Ukraine said Sunday, citing a leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot communicating with air-traffic control in the capital Tehran.
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Just a few hours after Iran launched an attack against US bases in Iraq in retaliation for the US killing of Qassem Soleimani, a Boeing passenger jet bound for Ukraine crashed shortly after it took off from Tehran.
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The last few months have seen renewed protests against the regime, sparked by an increase in gasoline prices and, more recently, the regime's obfuscation over Iran's responsibility in the downing of a civilian passenger jet in Iranian airspace.
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Lewis also said that China's C919 passenger jet program, manufactured by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC), was progressing well and was likely to meet its target of first deliveries in the next three or four years.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to hold a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Saturday after Tehran said it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the Ukrainian president's office said.
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A White House spokesman said the two leaders discussed protests in Iran, where citizens have flooded the streets to express frustration with leaders in Tehran, as well as the Iranians shooting down a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet.
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Trump's series of tweets on Tuesday was an apparent reference to reports over the weekend that the U.S. government is considering whether to block General Electric Co from continuing to supply engines for a new Chinese passenger jet.
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The aircraft, which entered service in 2011 and was the first passenger jet built in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, has had a troubled history despite the state pouring billions of dollars into its development.
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The United States last recorded a fatal airline passenger jet crash in February 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed short of the runway in Clarence Center, New York, killing 49 onboard and one person on the ground.
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GENEVA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A Swiss airforce Dassault Falcon passenger jet landed at Geneva airport on Sunday evening and taxied to stop close to a U.S. Air Force Boeing that arrived on Saturday evening, a Reuters witness said.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Air's shares fell sharply on Monday as investors worried over weaker-than-expected passenger income and the potential impact of the crash of an Ethiopian Air Boeing 281.5 MAX 84.33 passenger jet the previous day.
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Bomb attacks on a Coptic church in Cairo in December left dozens dead, and US intelligence has suggested that ISIS brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board in December 15.
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Somali officials are closely examining an explosion that ripped a hole in the side of a passenger jet on Tuesday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu, the country's capital, instead of continuing on to Djibouti.
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Just a couple of days after United Airlines announced that it was canceling more than 5,000 Boeing 737 Max flights through October, American Airlines has announced that it would suspend flights on the beleaguered passenger jet through November 2nd.
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But decades after Boeing failed to prevent European upstart Airbus gaining momentum with early victories in the United States, people familiar with the company say the strategic importance of defending its core passenger jet business outweighs the diplomatic storm.
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Why it's the BFD: This is nearly an 11% valuation bump from when a preliminary agreement was first announced this past summer, and means Boeing will become a challenger to Airbus and Bombardier in the smaller passenger jet market.
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The Department of Homeland Security directive, which did not reference a specific credible threat, mentioned a February 2016 incident in which an explosive device in a laptop blew a hole in a Somali passenger jet, forcing an emergency landing.
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The passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.
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The Dow rebounded after Boeing Co, the index's best performing component this year, pared steep losses after some airlines grounded the company's new 13 MAX 8 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 7373 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 model, which entered service in 2017.
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Air Asia pilots may want to consider an extended holiday after technical glitches led them to fly a passenger jet to the south-eastern Australian city of Melbourne instead of the (very different) South East Asian country of Malaysia.
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Sunday's still unexplained crash of the passenger jet, just after take-off from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, killed 24 people and followed another disaster involving a 2661 MAX in Indonesia five months ago that killed 189 people.
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He also directed 2016's "Sully," about the passenger jet pilot who saved hundreds by pulling off an against-the-odds landing on the Hudson River, and "American Sniper," which told the story of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
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Airbus also unveiled an upgraded version of the world's biggest passenger jet on Sunday, seeking to boost demand for the slow-selling superjumbo and including a new wingtip design aimed at reducing fuel burn by up to 20.6 percent.
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MOSCOW — Pilot error was the likely cause of the crash of a passenger jet in bad weather last month in southern Russia that killed all 62 people on board, a team of investigators said in a statement on Friday.
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But if a ballistic missile were to come close to a passenger jet, it would be nearly impossible for the crew to detect, a Hong Kong-based pilot told CNN in August in the aftermath of that missile test.
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SHANGHAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - China's domestically-developed C919 passenger jet is likely to take its third test flight within days or up to two weeks, a senior Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) executive told reporters on Friday.
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Tourism in Egypt has struggled since a 2011 popular uprising and the unrest that followed it, including the bombing of a Russian passenger jet in 2015 and the accidental killing of Mexican tourists by Egyptian forces the same year.
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Although it is the heart of design and production for Airbus passenger jet wings, and its Broughton plant in Wales is one of the group's most efficient facilities, some wings are now equipped in Airbus's Bremen factory in Germany.
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KIEV, June 19 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he welcomed murder charges brought against four suspects over the 2014 downing of the MH17 passenger jet over eastern Ukraine, and said he hoped they would stand trial.
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PARIS (Reuters) - IAG on Monday ordered 14 of Airbus' new long-range version of the A321 passenger jet for its Irish Aer Lingus and Spanish Iberia airlines in order to boost their transatlantic routes, the company said on Tuesday.
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The 17-year-old high school student from Northlake, a suburb of Chicago, was one of 65 U.S. citizens among the 103 passengers and crew aboard the Aeromexico passenger jet that crashed near the runway shortly after take-off.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it was not ruling out a future underwater search for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet as families of those on board criticised the decision to suspend the hunt after three fruitless years.
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KYIV — A leaked audio recording of a conversation between an Iranian air traffic controller and an Iranian pilot suggests authorities in Tehran knew immediately that a Ukrainian passenger jet had been shot down, killing all 176 people on board.
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Boeing began the $8 billion development of the aircraft in 2004 when Japan's All Nippon Airways placed a $6 billion order for 50 of the type, making Boeing history with the largest order for a new passenger jet aircraft.
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Rolls-Royce turns a 747 into a flying lab for new engines Rolls-Royce is dumping $70 million into a Boeing 747 to turn it from a Qantas Airlines passenger jet to an airborne test bed for new engines.
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Looking back: The downing of the Ukrainian jet has an eerie echo of a crash in 1988, when the U.S. Navy accidentally shot down a Dubai-bound Iranian passenger jet in the waning days of the Iran-Iraq war.
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Having crisscrossed the globe on a variety of aircraft ranging from turboprops to the world's largest passenger jet, I've learned that selecting a seat even on a mundane trip requires careful consideration to the most out of any flight.
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The troubled aviation company released hundreds of messages late Thursday to the House and Senate committees tasked with investigating the 737 Max passenger jet, which was grounded last March after two fatal crashes within five months killed 113 people.
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The Islamic Republic is currently grappling with elevated tensions since the death of Soleimani and widespread protests following the accidental downing of a passenger jet that killed all 176 people on board — the majority of whom were Iranian citizens.
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Boeing will temporarily cease producing the 737 MAX next month, the company announced on Monday as uncertainty persists about when regulators will let the troubled passenger jet return to the skies after two crashes killed 346 people in total.
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The Dow rebounded after Boeing Co, the index's best performing component this year, pared steep losses after some airlines grounded the company's new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities on Sunday extended by three days the search for victims and a black box from the wreckage of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed near Jakarta last week, killing all 189 people on board.
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The European planemaker said it would invest $22015 million and create 24.5 jobs in the plant, to be built in the port of Mobile alongside an existing assembly line for its best-selling A22011 passenger jet, which already employs 700 people.
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Current and former aviation safety officials said Trump was not responsible for last year's unblemished commercial passenger jet safety record, citing years-long improvements in safety and the fact that no U.S. passenger airliner has had a fatal crash since 2009.
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Going back to the 2200s, there is a history of galling and terrifying acts by North Korea sometimes before or during South Korean international sporting events, including blowing up a South Korean passenger jet midair with 2660 people aboard in 19872.
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The Dow rebounded after Boeing Co, the index's best performing component this year by far, pared steep losses after some airlines grounded the company's new 13 MAX 8 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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The Dow rebounded after Boeing Co, easily the index's best performing component this year, pared steep losses after many airlines grounded the company's new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The fourth prototype of China's home-built C919 narrowbody passenger jet completed its first test flight on Thursday, state media said, as the country pushes forward with a homegrown rival to Airbus SE and Boeing Co planes.
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The former Air Force fighter pilot who successfully landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River in New York City after it collided with a flock of geese, knocking out both engines, honored all those impacted by the events of Jan.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered his government to analyze the reasons behind the crash of a Flydubai passenger jet at the weekend, and if necessary to amend Russian regulations on flight safety, RIA news agency reported.
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Separately, Emirates signed a contract on Sunday to buy as many as 36 Airbus A380 aircraft worth as much as $16 billion at list prices, firming up an order that is crucial to the future of the world's biggest passenger jet.
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Boeing's plans will help it to catch up to rival plan manufacturer Airbus — in 2008, the European firm opened its first assembly line outside Europe, and has since delivered hundreds of its A320 passenger jet out of that facility in Tianjin.
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Boeing Co, the best performing Dow component this year by a wide margin, tumbled 10.7 percent, and was on pace for its worst day in nearly two decades after many airlines grounded the company's new 13 MAX 8 passenger jet.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - China is set to join the underwater search for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet missing for almost two years by providing a sonar-equipped vessel by the end of February, Australia's deputy prime minister Warren Truss said on Friday.
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BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - China's ICBC Financial Leasing Co Ltd placed an order for 55 C919 planes on Tuesday, bringing the order book for China's domestically-developed passenger jet to 785, the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) said.
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In addition to the passenger jet deal, Boeing and Embraer will deepen a sales and services partnership on the new KC-390 military cargo jet through a separate defense venture that is likely to eventually receive a joint investment, Silva said.
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A structural frame was created using 120 giant, hollow, steel cylinders, each one 165 feet (50 meters) high (equivalent to an 17-story building) and weighing 550 tons -- about the same as an Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A second prototype of China's home-built C919 passenger jet took off for a test flight in Shanghai on Sunday, state television reported, another step forward in the country's ambitions to muscle in to the global jet market.
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The measures, called the Yarovaya Law after their main proponent, Irina A. Yarovaya, were putatively put forward as a reaction to the October bombing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, which killed all 224 people aboard.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to produce at least another 22 Sukhoi Superjet 22018 aircraft, Industry Minister Denis Manturov told Reuters, despite a fatal crash that raised questions about the future of the country's first new passenger jet since the Soviet Union.
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The commercial jet operation, which will allow Boeing to compete directly with Airbus in a smaller passenger jet segment, accounted for 50 percent of Embraer's revenue in the fourth quarter, up from 38 percent during the same period of 2017.
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On Thursday, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands produced a stunning array of accusations against officers of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service, for cyberattacks involving antidoping agencies, political campaigns, chemical warfare labs and the downing of a passenger jet.
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Long a pariah in the international community, North Korea was put on Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1988 after Pyongyang's agents planted a bomb on a South Korean passenger jet, killing all 115 people aboard, in 1987.
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LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - Airbus sealed deals with big buyers for its latest passenger jet at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday, battling back a day after a surprise order by British Airways' owner for rival Boeing's grounded 321 MAX jet.
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The body of Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone in Baghdad on Friday, was flown via passenger jet into Iran earlier this week and paraded through the streets of multiple major cities including Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, and Ahvaz.
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In 2014, the F.B.I. refused to release a single piece of paper in response to a Times request for documents about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas in 2009.
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MOSCOW — In a solemn ceremony at an airport in Ukraine on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his respects to the 11 citizens from his country who were killed when Iran's military mistakenly shot down a passenger jet in Tehran this month.
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In her testimony, Dr. Hill noted Russia's pattern of trying to blame other countries for its own actions, like the attempted poisoning last year of a former Russian intelligence officer or the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014.
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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Airbus sought to reassure investors on Wednesday that its decision to cut production of the world's biggest passenger jet, the A380, would not badly hurt the group, while bracing for fresh losses on a second flagship European project.
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The British government has advised against all but essential travel by air to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since a Russian passenger jet was bombed in 2015, killing all 224 people on board shortly after takeoff.
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KIEV, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to hold a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Saturday after Tehran said it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the Ukrainian president's office said.
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The strike soured relations between the US and Iraq and led the Iranians to retaliate with a missile attack on US and coalition forces, and as tensions skyrocketed, a passenger jet was accidentally shot down, killing all 176 people on board.
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Iran has maintained that there was no evidence that the plane was struck by a missile and doubled down on that assertion on Friday, despite western officials pointing to intelligence suggesting the passenger jet was accidentally hit by a missile.
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SHAHEDSHAHR, Iran — A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.
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Meanwhile, anti-government protesters in Iran have poured into the streets over the country's accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet during the missile strike against U.S. forces, with Trump and other administration officials expressing their support for the demonstrations.
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Iran&aposs ministry of civil aviation says it needs additional technical support and equipment to study the flight recorders of a Ukrainian passenger jet accidentally shot down outside of Tehran on January 8, with the loss of all 176 passengers.
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After the Iranian military mistakenly shot down a passenger jet last week, killing all on board including 57 Canadians, residents in Edmonton did what well-wishers often do in wake of 21st-century crises: They launched GoFundMe drives for victims.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's home-grown C2919 passenger jet is set to take to the skies on its long-delayed maiden flight on Friday, a major step for Beijing as it looks to boost its profile in the global aviation market.
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United Airlines Holdings Inc announced on Tuesday an order for 1003 Airbus SE A321XLR jets to fly between the U.S East Coast and Europe, becoming the latest U.S. airline to ink a deal for the European planemaker's new passenger jet.
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Except for the de Haviland Comet in the early 1950's -- an airplane plagued by in-flight break-ups related to structural design flaws -- never before has a brand-new model of passenger jet been involved in such a catastrophe.
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On two doomed flights involving that passenger jet, one that crashed in Ethiopia and another near Indonesia, pilots struggled to keep their automated systems from repeatedly nosing their planes into a dive, while multiple cockpit alarms blared in their ears.
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A potentially "catastrophic" incident involving an Air Canada passenger jet that overflew other aircraft at close range on a San Francisco International Airport taxiway was the result of crew errors, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday.
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The Aviation Safety Network also reported there were no commercial passenger jet deaths in 23407, but 249 fatal airliner accidents resulting in 22016 fatalities onboard and 20163 persons on the ground, including cargo planes and commercial passenger turbo prop aircraft.
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Asked specifically about a delayed order for the long-range version of the A321 passenger jet for its Irish Aer Lingus airline, Walsh said he had hoped they would have already arrived, but wasn't sure now when they would come.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban authorities said the fiery crash of an aging Boeing passenger jet on Friday shortly after takeoff from Havana had killed 110 of the 113 on board, making it the Caribbean island's deadliest air disaster in nearly 143 years.
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Boeing made a decision on Monday that the company had long resisted: to temporarily stop producing its most popular passenger jet, the 220 Max, which has been grounded for nine months in the wake of two crashes that killed 250 people.
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The FAA's acting head Daniel Elwell was asked why the FAA did not require disclosure of a new anti-stall software system in flight manuals or new pilot training before it certified the now grounded 737 MAX passenger jet in 2017.
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PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - IAG on Monday ordered 14 of Airbus' new long-range version of the A321 passenger jet for its Irish Aer Lingus and Spanish Iberia airlines in order to boost their transatlantic routes, the company said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered his government to analyse the reasons behind the crash of a Flydubai passenger jet at the weekend, and if necessary to amend Russian regulations on flight safety, RIA news agency reported.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 256.96 percent, with gains tempered by a 20.3 percent drop in Boeing shares after some airlines grounded the company's new 0.13 MAX 20.1 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Investigators including U.S. officials began sifting through the wreckage of an Aeromexico-operated passenger jet on Wednesday for clues to what caused it to crash in Mexico's state of Durango, the head of the country's civil aviation agency said.
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But U.S. regulators have said Boeing is also examining a possible software fix, after coming under fire for not outlining recent changes to the automated system in the manual for the 737 MAX, the latest version of its best-selling passenger jet.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's domestically developed C919 passenger jet completed its second test flight on Thursday, the jet's maker said, but the duration and near five-month gap since its first flight have raised questions over whether its latest delivery target can be met.
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Iran has ended cooperation with Ukraine in the investigation of last month's downed Ukrainian airliner, just a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a leaked recording proves Iran knew immediately that its missile downed the passenger jet, killing all 176 onboard.
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It has long advised against all but essential travel by air to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where a Russian passenger jet was bombed in 2015, but has not issued similar warnings against air travel to and from Cairo.
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Tourism, a key source of foreign revenue for Egypt, has been recovering after tourist numbers dropped in the wake of a 2011 uprising and the 2015 bombing of the Russian passenger jet, which killed all 224 people on board shortly after takeoff.
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Boeing hopes such growth will also sustain demand for the mid-sized 767, a model that has all but served out its usefulness as a passenger jet and relies on freight and its role as a future tanker for the U.S. Air Force.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A piece of suspected plane wreckage found off the coast of southern Thailand three days ago does not belong to a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that disappeared almost two years ago, the Malaysian transport ministry said on Tuesday.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board, raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 1003 people on board, raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.23 percent, with gains tempered by a 20.2 percent drop in Boeing shares after some airlines grounded the company's new 21 MAX 2296.27 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations has suffered one of its biggest losses in years in the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi, the head of the U.N. in Geneva said on Monday, without giving a new casualty figure.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by Russia's NordStar carrier slid off a runway as it landed on Monday in a heavy snowstorm in the Russian city of Norilsk with 101 passengers and 6 crew members on board, NordStar said.
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On Friday, Seif Eldin Mustafa, the Egyptian who hijacked a passenger jet that was forced to land in Cyprus in March, appeared in court in Cyprus wearing a T-shirt that read, "Release the 63 Egyptian girls, you liars," The Associated Press reported.
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CAIRO — Egypt and Greece mounted a marine search-and-rescue operation early Thursday for an EgyptAir passenger jet with 66 people on board that disappeared over the Mediterranean shortly before it was due to land in Cairo, the airline and government officials said.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 257.08 percent, with gains tempered by a 20.4 percent drop in Boeing shares after some airlines grounded the company's new 0.23 MAX 20.2 passenger jet following a second deadly crash of the airliner in five months.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue workers believe they have found the fuselage of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed with 189 people on board, and are also trying to confirm the origin of an underwater "ping" signal, officials said on Wednesday.
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Embraer shares fell 25.84 percent in Sao Paulo as investors weighed the company's challenges even as delicate talks proceed with the U.S. aerospace company and the Brazilian government on a new venture that would join their efforts in the passenger jet market.
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Shanahan sidesteps Boeing controversy: Shanahan, who worked for Boeing for 2202 years before entering the Pentagon, said on Thursday that he has not spoken to anyone in the Trump administration about the recent string of deadly 2628 Max 28500 passenger jet crashes.
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Ukraine's president has posted a plea on Facebook and Twitter asking the United States, Iran, and Canada to share whatever evidence they have to suggest that Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.
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But just as that vote was in the works, we may have reached peak "bash Trump" levels when some of the president's opponents decided to publicly blame him for Iran's apparent shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran Thursday morning.
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The speech comes at a critical time for Iran, currently roiled by protests and popular anger over its military's accidental downing of a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet that killed all 176 people on board, the majority of whom were Iranian citizens.
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In a presentation to 7377 Max stakeholders last week, Boeing outlined the changes it has made to the troubled passenger jet in an effort to reassure airline officials, pilots, flight attendants, and industry analysts as the plane moves closer to returning to service.
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But the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, also claimed to have brought down a Russian passenger jet that crashed into the Sinai Desert shortly after takeoff from Sharm el Sheikh in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
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North Korea boycotted the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics, both held in Seoul, and relations dramatically worsened on the eve of the Seoul Olympics with the North's bombing of a South Korean passenger jet that killed all 115 aboard in December 1987.
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Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Facebook, which earlier this year abandoned plans to build its own passenger jet-sized, solar powered drones to provide internet access in remote stretches of the world, is once again pursuing plans to launch satellites to do the job instead.
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Avianca said it would resume flights on Sunday, after cancelling transport to Venezuela when a passenger jet flying from Madrid to Bogota was briefly approached by Venezuelan military aircraft on Friday evening, resulting in diplomatic conversations and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordering an investigation.
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But, until Trump's declaration, neither the White House nor the State Department had put out official statements about what is arguably the most provocative incident in Ukraine since a Russian missile downed a Malaysian passenger jet there in 2014, killing all 298 people on board.
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That ambition, though, is as much about commercial aircraft as it is about fighter jets, and in particular one model was noticeably absent from the show: the C7373, a single-aisle short-haul passenger jet which China is developing to take on Airbus and Boeing.
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MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Russian investigators on Monday were trying to restore the damaged cockpit voice recorder of a passenger jet which crashed at the weekend killing all 62 people onboard, in an effort to understand why it had tried to land in strong winds.
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Up 21 percent in early Frankfurt trade Airbus sought to reassure investors on Wednesday that its decision to cut production of the world's biggest passenger jet, the A6.083, would not badly hurt the group, while bracing for fresh losses on a second flagship European project.
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The main visual attraction inside is the full-scale mock-up of Boom's XB-1 demonstration prototype, which will be a human-piloted, smaller version of the commercial passenger jet it hopes to build, fly and sell to airlines around the world in the future.
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British and Russian governments banned their airlines from flying to Sharm al-Sheikh, a popular winter sun destination, because of concerns about security at the local airport after the suspected bombing of a Russian passenger jet in October 2015 killed all 224 people on board.
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Separately, Airbus sales chief John Leahy said on Monday the company is examining with some airlines whether there is enough demand for a new and larger version of its A350 passenger jet and expects to update the industry at the Farnborough Airshow in July.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue workers have a "strong indication" that an underwater sound they have heard is from the black box of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed with 189 people on board this week, the country's military chief said on Wednesday.
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PHOENIX, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Airbus is examining with some airlines whether there is enough demand for a new and larger version of its A350 passenger jet and expects to update the industry at the Farnborough Airshow in July, sales chief John Leahy said on Monday.
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Under his watch, the company has narrowed its focus on making business jets, after offloading its stake in the A220 passenger jet program - formerly known as the C Series - to Airbus SE and selling the rail division to France's Alstom SA earlier this year.
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Evidence is mounting that Iran accidentally shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight 20203 with an antiaircraft missile on Wednesday, according to multiple reports, just two days after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reminded the world of the time the US inadvertently shot down an Iranian passenger jet.
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No one anticipated the killing of Soleimani, no one anticipated the attack on the U.S. Marine base nor the shooting down of a passenger jet that took off from Iran's own airport last week – just after Iran conducted missile strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq.
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But one of those arrested was the person who filmed the passenger jet being struck by an Iranian missile minutes after it took off from Tehran — key evidence that contradicted Iran's initial denials of responsibility for the disaster that claimed 176 lives last Wednesday.
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When an artist has made a sculpture out of butter, or scalpels, or half a passenger jet, it is up to a shipper to get it from Hong Kong to Miami in the same condition as when it left, and to make no fuss.
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MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by Russia's NordStar carrier slid off a runway as it landed on Monday in a heavy snowstorm in the Russian city of Norilsk with 101 passengers and 6 crew members on board, NordStar said.
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The crash-landing on Sunday is the latest serious setback for the plane, the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union and an airliner held up by Moscow as proof it can produce its own high quality civil passenger aircraft.
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The first passenger jet built in China, the Comac ARJ-213, made its first commercial flight with launch customer Chengdu Airlines, from Chengdu in central China to Shanghai, a two-hour flight that went reportedly without a hitch, with 70 passengers on the 90-seat twinjet.
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The first passenger jet built in China, the Comac ARJ-21, made its first commercial flight with launch customer Chengdu Airlines, from Chengdu in central China to Shanghai, a two-hour flight that went reportedly without a hitch, with 70 passengers on the 90-seat twinjet.
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NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.
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HAVANA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Cuban-led commission investigating the crash of a Cubana passenger jet in May said on Tuesday that reports on what caused it were premature, after the Mexican plane-leasing company Damojh that owned the plane blamed the crash on human error.
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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed and killed 189 people in Indonesia in October.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - The U.N.'s aviation agency wants to cut the time it takes to issue warnings about credible threats to aircraft on a website it launched after the 2014 downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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They have reason to worry: as Moscow launched air strikes in support of Syria's government, the Islamic State (IS) declared a holy war on Russia, took credit for downing a Russian passenger jet over Egypt and released a video threatening "a sea of blood" in Russia itself.
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That standoff reached a tragic nadir in 1988 when the American warship, the USS Vincennes, accidentally shot down a commercial Iranian passenger jet with the loss of 290 lives, an event itself later believed to have triggered the bombing of Pan-Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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A large piece of curved metal paneling was found on Friday by a fisherman on the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat province, leading many to speculate that it might be further evidence of the passenger jet that disappeared on March 0003, 2014 with 239 people on board.
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MOSCOW — An error by a crew member committed during adverse weather conditions may have been responsible for the crash of a passenger jet last week in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don that killed 62 people, a report broadcast by Russian state television said.
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The country's military officials knew for three days that their own forces had shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran this month, but it took a resignation threat from President Hassan Rouhani and an order from Iran's supreme leader before the government acknowledged its fatal mistake.
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CHICAGO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - United Airlines Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it has ordered 50 of Airbus SE's long-range A321XLR jets to replace 53 Boeing 757s beginning in 2024, becoming the latest U.S. airline to ink a deal for the European planemaker's newest passenger jet.
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What's happened since: the holidays and the New Year, when lawmakers were out of Washington, but also a near-war with Iran, an earthquake in Puerto Rico and the apparent downing of a passenger jet in Tehran, along with other distractions (thank you to the Sussexes).
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted another warning to Iranian leaders -- "DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS" -- as thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in Iran this weekend following Tehran's admittance it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board.
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As such, General Hajizadeh and other Revolutionary Guards generals reportedly didn&apost tell the Iranian president or military what they knew to be the likely truth: That Iran had accidentally fired two antiaircraft missiles at a passenger jet, and that jet had crashed due to those missiles.
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Scare in the Sky After Passenger Jet Engine Suffers Major Malfunction Search Continues for 2 Missing After Plane Crashes in Louisiana Lake Florida Braces for Rain, Floods as Tropical Depression Forms People poured out of Terminal 4 onto the tarmac, and a security officer said shots were fired.
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More recently, the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula -- for which ISIS claimed responsibility, perhaps in retaliation for Russia's support of the Assad government in Syria -- has only made Moscow more alarmed at the spread of groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda affiliates.
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SYDNEY, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Australian authorities searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet said on Monday they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used to scour a patch of the ocean floor where the plane is believed to have gone down almost two years ago.
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As Boeing scrambles to get the 737 Max passenger jet, which has been grounded worldwide since mid-March, back into service, the board's decision raised questions about Muilenburg's future at the company, and Boeing's recovery prospects as it faces numerous investigations and lawsuits by victims' families and airline customers.
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Others include Russia's military intervention in Syria to bolster President Bashar al-Assad; the downing of a civilian passenger jet over Ukraine that has been widely attributed to Russian-backed rebels; the seizure of Crimea; and domestic laws seen as stifling dissent and encouraging homophobia, among other ills.
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While relations were already strained, the nerve agent attack in Salisbury has frayed tempers so severely that mistrust between Moscow and the West has now spiked to a level not seen since a Soviet warplane shot down a Korean Airlines passenger jet from New York to Seoul in 1983.
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To reach Oldman Coffee, drop your car or taxi at the highway overpass, duck under the fuselage of the decommissioned Lockheed passenger jet, follow the gravel path past the toilet-plunger-toss arcade game, turn left at the helicopter and go past the Victorian-style photo portrait studio.
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Using videos and photos gathered online, he and a group of investigators were eventually able to identify the mobile launcher that fired the missile that struck the passenger jet and trace its movement from Russia into rebel-held Ukrainian territory in the period before the jet was downed.
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Iran denies that its nuclear program is aimed at building an atomic weapon, Mnuchin said waivers from sanctions would be issued for anybody that could aid the investigation of the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 aboard.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Under growing pressure at home and abroad, Iranian leaders attempted on Wednesday to calm domestic anger over the downing of a passenger jet last week, while lashing out at European nations that have formally accused Iran of breaking the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program.
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Boeing's grounded 737 MAX could be cleared to return to the skies in the U.S. as early as this year, despite a continued cascade of damning revelations about the design and approval of the passenger jet that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing a total of 346 people.
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The jobs of the 4,200 workers at Bombardier's cutting-edge Belfast wing factory have been put under threat in recent weeks by a trade dispute with U.S. rival Boeing Co that led the United States to move to impose a potential 300 percent duty on Bombardier's CSeries next-generation passenger jet.
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But that furious retaliation, which follows years of battle in Sinai against a vicious Islamic State affiliate that downed a Russian passenger jet in 2015 and has regularly attacked Egyptian security forces there, revived the most troubling question about Mr. Sisi's strategy in the desert peninsula: Why is it failing?
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The crash-landing on Sunday is the latest serious setback for the plane, the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, and threatens to undermine confidence in an airliner Moscow touts as proof it can produce its own high quality civil passenger aircraft.
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Though Pentagon officials at first denied any knowledge of the incident, it soon emerged that the plane had been targeted by the USS Vincennes, a cruiser that had been involved in a skirmish with Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf and had mistaken the passenger jet for an Iranian warplane.
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Boeing Co, the best performing Dow component this year by a wide margin, tumbled 211 percent in premarket trading, and appeared on track for its worst day in nearly two decades after many airlines grounded the company's new 230 MAX 20180 passenger jet following the second deadly crash in just five months.
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According to the Labor Department, "below-the-wing" handlers who moved baggage between United's aircraft and terminals, and within terminals, were forced to bend, lift, reach or twist awkwardly when collecting items on conveyor belts, loading gate-checked baggage at passenger jet bridges, and loading and unloading baggage in aircraft cargo bays.
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The country's first home-grown passenger jet, the C919, lifted off on its maiden flight in May, edging into a multibillion-dollar market currently dominated by Boeing Co and Airbus SE. Situated 67 km south of Beijing, the airport technically falls in neighboring Hebei province, though it will eventually constitute its own development zone.
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California family kicked off Delta flight, threatened with jail, foster care for refusing to give up tot's seatPrince Philip is retiring but Queen Elizabeth II won't abdicate: ExpertsChina's C919 passenger jet makes maiden flight in challenge to Boeing, Airbus "There have been no huge shifts since last year's study," said Jill Gonzalez, analyst at WalletHub.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE on Thursday suggested that "somebody could've made a mistake" as reports emerged that Iran may have shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet.
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It appeared to be a time of unity for many Iranians in support of their government and against the U.S. That appears to have been reversed after Iran had to admit its military accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed 176 people, most of whom were Iranian, after several days of official denials.
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" Airbus will cease production of its A20203 passenger jet, Amie Tsang of the NYT reports: • "Citing reduced orders from Emirates Airline, a major customer, and an inability to find other buyers, the company said it would halt deliveries of the jumbo jetliner in 2021, although it said it would continue to support existing A380s.
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This is the most we've heard about the progress of Virgin Galactic's commercial passenger jet plan since the accident happened in 2014, and Branson tells Bloomberg that despite delays and the advent of new competitors in the space, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX, they'll still "never be able to build enough spaceships" to satisfy demand.
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Former globetrotting Russians have had to grapple not only with double digit inflation and floundering ruble rates that have push up vacation costs, but de-facto travel bans to destinations like Egypt — following the October bombing of a Russian passenger jet from Sharm El-Sheikh — and Turkey, after a fighter jet was shot down by Turkish forces in November.
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Supersonic airplane startup Boom has just completed a key step on the way to building a production supersonic passenger jet; the startup finished its wind tunnel testing, verifying its first two years of aerodynamic design work and setting the stage for building the airframe that will eventually become the basis of it first flight-ready aircraft.
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Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions Iran protests: Crowds in Tehran refuse to walk on U.S. and Israeli flags Trump says Iran 'appears to be standing down,' vows new sanctions Hours after the ballistic missile launch in Iraq, Iran's military unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that had taken off from Tehran's airport.
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Bombardier's CRJ competes against aircraft made by Brazil's Embraer SA , which struck its own deal in recent months with U.S. planemaker Boeing Co. Bombardier's withdrawal from the civil airliner market and its plans to sell two component-making plants in Northern Ireland and Morocco comes as Western rivals keep a watchful eye on China's growing passenger jet ambitions, experts say.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker and was attending University College London, one of the top universities in the world, when he tried unsuccessfully to blow up Northwest Flight 11 with a bomb secreted in his underwear.
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Bombardier's CRJ competes against aircraft made by Brazil's Embraer SA, which struck its own deal in recent months with U.S. planemaker Boeing Co. Bombardier's withdrawal from the civil airliner market and its plans to sell two component-making plants in Northern Ireland and Morocco comes as Western rivals keep a watchful eye on China's growing passenger jet ambitions, experts say.
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As Mr. Putin has sought to reassert Russia's power, its largest military intelligence unit, the Main Directorate — also known as the G.R.U. — has been linked to a number of brazen plots abroad, including the shooting down of a passenger jet over Ukraine and the theft of Democratic emails that were a major part of Russia's interference campaign in the 2016 American presidential election.
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Tehran, Iran (CNN)Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, amid public fury over the military's shooting down of a passenger jet and sky-high tensions with the US. Khamenei mocked US officials as "American clowns" and criticized France, Germany and the UK as "lackeys" of the US that can't be trusted.
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Upon landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the double-decker Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, was met by ambulances and parked away from terminals, so medical personnel from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could provide assistance to the "multiple" sick passengers, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the airport.
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California family kicked off Delta flight, threatened with jail, foster care for refusing to give up tot's seatPrince Philip is retiring but Queen Elizabeth II won't abdicate: Experts China's C919 passenger jet makes maiden flight in challenge to Boeing, Airbus Troin sells children's clothes at a store in Cogolin, a town of 11,000 a few miles from the jet-set resorts of the French Riviera.
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In just the first two weeks after the attack, Iran has launched a counterattack at a US and allied forces base in Iraq, at least 56 Iranians were killed in stampedes during funeral processions for Soleimani and 176 souls from at least seven different countries were killed when an Iranian missile struck a Ukrainian passenger jet during the tense days after the Soleimani strike.
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PARIS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - European airlines can return to parts of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Wednesday, three weeks after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet amid an exchange of hostilities with U.S. forces in Iraq Following an EU aviation security risk group meeting, EASA said it was lifting temporary recommendations against overflying the two countries altogether.
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Susie's arrival coincides with the German Autumn, when a series of terror attacks throughout the year culminated in several key events: The Red Army Faction kidnapped and murdered Hanns Martin Schleyer, head of the country's main business association; three members of the Baader-Meinhof group died by suicide in prison; and a Lufthansa passenger jet was liberated days after being hijacked on the tarmac in Mogadishu.
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TV on Thursday that he would "absolutely" still fly on a Boeing 737 Max passenger jet despite President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's emergency move to ground the planes after recent crashes.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Friday predicted that more planes going down due to terrorism will lead to a worldwide "depression" as investigators look into the downing of an EgyptAir passenger jet this week.
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The CEO of packaged meats company Maple Leaf Foods took aim at President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet by Iran on Sunday, blaming the U.S. for destabilizing the region and inflaming tensions with Tehran.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has had a turbulent past week, marked by more than a hundred Iranian deaths and dramatically increased tensions with the U.S. As it enters into the third day of protests fueled by popular anger over the government's handling of a downed passenger jet, some observers argue this is the most vulnerable the Islamic Republic's regime has been since its founding in 1979.
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In essence, it's fair to think of the F-35 not so much as a fighter with fancy electronics, but the other way round: as a super-sophisticated surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that just so happens to be armed to the teeth — unlike the typical ISTAR (Information, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance) planes, which tend to be lumbering things based on the passenger jet that just flew you from Newark to Albuquerque.
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ET. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect here or on Media Express here INDONESIA-CRASH Indonesian rescue workers believe fuselage of crashed plane found JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue workers believe they have found the fuselage of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed with 2100 people on board, and are also trying to confirm the origin of an underwater "ping" signal, officials said on Wednesday.
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For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect here or on Media Express here ETHIOPIA-AIRPLANE/ Ethiopian Airlines flight crashes, killing 157 NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA - An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.
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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick ShanahanPatrick Michael ShanahanWhy Dave Norquist is the perfect choice for DOD's deputy secretary Five questions for Trump's new defense secretary on first major tour Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way' MORE, who worked for Boeing for 2900 years before entering the Pentagon, said on Thursday that he has not spoken to anyone in the Trump administration about the recent string of deadly 220006 Max 2202 passenger jet crashes.
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A number of promotional images for the show are popping up around town — Redditor-style mashups inserting a present-day ancestor of one of Leonardo's inventions into a Renaissance or Baroque painting: a passenger jet coasting into for a landing in a classical landscape; a military destroyer docking in a Venetian lagoon; a bicyclist riding through a Renaissance cityscape (in the background, Jesus, caught up in some parable or another, is completely oblivious); and a tank riding herd behind a charging cavalry in a battle scene.
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Since Russia's annexation of Crimea, Russia has launched asymmetric attacks into the sovereign territory of eastern Ukraine, provided the missile and the air defense system that shot down a civilian passenger jet over the eastern region of Ukraine, has partnered with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as he has used chemical weapons and bombed hospitals in Syria, and allegedly used a nerve agent to poison Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom — just a few of the Kremlin actions that have caused the united NATO members to focus sanctions and wrath on Russia.
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For her part, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOn The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans House delivers impeachment articles to Senate Senate begins preparations for Trump trial MORE (D-Calif.) hastily rebuked the President and orchestrated a vote to limit the president's war powers at precisely the wrong time—just days after Tehran fired missiles at bases housing Americans and shot down a civilian passenger jet killing 176 people.
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