Airbus now has around half of the global jetliner market, up from 19% in 1995, and its share is expanding.
Earlier, civil aviation officials said hijackers seized a Boeing 737 jetliner shortly after its departure from Bombay late Wednesday night, reportedly with 54 people on board.
A cool-headed pilot maneuvered his crippled jetliner over New York City and ditched it in the frigid Hudson River, and all 155 on board were pulled to safety as the plane slowly sank.
The jetliner had been flying through heavy storms and turbulence.
Experts swill be looking for lessons from any findings that emerge from the disappearance of the AirAsia jetliner.
Following a jetliner accident, the media is quick to report on the search for the "black boxes," or the airplane's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
A jetliner taxied down the runway and took off.
Suppliers, who play an increasingly critical role in designing, building and financing jetliner development, also suffer in production cuts.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A Syrian desperate to reach Germany hid a pistol and grenade in the bags of his children, ages 5 and 3, as he boarded a Jordanian jetliner on which his brother was also a passenger.
He subsequently worked on Boeing's 747, 767 and 737 jetliner programmes.
The modern wide-bodied jetliner is very large.
Boeing will decide in the next few months whether to embark on a revamp of its 737 single-aisle jetliner line.
Thee disappearance of an Indonesia AirAsia jetliner with 162 people on board caps a torrid year for the aviation industry involving a spate of high-profile crashes.
US Airways pilot guided his jetliner into the frigid Hudson River in New York after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines just after takeoff Thursday afternoon.
Both were on the 78th floor waiting for elevators when the jetliner tore through the building.
The jetliner broke apart, killing all 228 people on board.
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