It's been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It's the same story in Europe.
Airbus and Boeing do not have much to worry about yet, but China's aviation industry is developing rapidly and the goal of building a wide-bodied airliner is not out of the question.
The airliner flew above the clouds.
Just 1kg less per seat can save some 40, 000 litres of fuel per airliner over a year.
US immigration authorities detained on Tuesday a Cuban exile accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and sought by the Cuban government, US media reported.
The terrorists are threatening to blow up the hijacked airliner.
The avionics on a modern airliner are already capable of flying it for most of its journey with the autopilot switched on.
44 people were killed, when an aging Russian airliner slammed into the ground and caught fire, as it tried to land on a foggy night in northwestern Russia, late Monday.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student who tried to down an American airliner with explosive underpants on Christmas Day, had been in Yemen since August.
The Tupolev Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic airliner, developed in the 1960s.
But even a small airliner still contains several tonnes of costly aerospace-grade titanium.
The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner.
WHEN a Filipina secretly gave birth on an airliner last month and dumped the infant in a rubbish bin, the country’s powerful Catholic bishops rightly led an outcry of condemnation.
A Yemenia airliner with 153 people on board crashed into the sea as it came in to land at Moroni, the capital of the Comoros. There was one survivor, a 14-year-old girl.
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