China completes production of first big passenger plane

[Bonjor]

The C919 narrow-body jet represents at least seven years of efforts in a state-mandated drive to reduce dependence on Airbus and Boeing


China’s first big passenger plane rolled off the assembly line on Monday as the Asian giant seeks the prestige of having its own aviation sector, and to challenge foreign giants Airbus and Boeing for market share.

Workers spent over a year putting together the C919, a narrow-body jet which can seat 168 passengers, at the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (Comac) facility in Shanghai.

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[Pakistan-1]

This plane is destined to fail like the Y-10 and the ARJ21 before her

[CoyBoy]

Looks good, huge engines nicer cockpit windows than A320

[Rana]

This 100% EMBRAER 190 . But assambeld in china , Embraer did not allow they to produce this plane as EMBRAER 190. That is why they named it C919.

[Shaheer]

Looks more like a mixture of 787 and 737

[raihans]

completed high speed taxi test with nose gear lift off of ground

[faisal-777]

Any customers who already placed an order for this?