China’s First Domestically Built Plane C919 Makes Its Maiden Flight From Shanghai To Beijing

The single-aisle, twin-engined aircraft has 164 seats China’s first indigenously built passenger aircraft C919 successfully completed its first commercial flight on Sunday, May 28, BBC reported. Operated by the state-run China Eastern Airlines, the new C919 plane left Shanghai at 10:32 am local time and ”arrived smoothly” at the Beijing Capital International Airport at 12:31 […]