The Chinese regime has stepped into the aircraft race against the United States and European Union after it launched C919, the first Chinese-made passenger jet, in December 2022.
While it is too early to tell how things will turn out for the C919, aviation experts have predicted that Australia’s flag carrier Qantas will not get its hands on the Chinese passenger jet any time soon due to safety concerns.
In December 2022, the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) delivered the first C919 to its customer, China Eastern Airlines, after 15 years of development, which cost tens of billions of dollars.
The narrow-body airliner, which is designed to carry between 158 and 192 passengers with an operating range of 4,075 to 5,555 kilometres, was just certified by the Civil Aviation Administration of China three months earlier….