China’s First Home-developed Regional Jet Made First Commercial Flight

China’s first independently developed regional jet plane made its first commercial flight Tuesday morning from the southwest Chengdu to Shanghai in the east, with 70 passengers aboard. The Comac ARJ21 Xiangfeng is a twin-engined regional jet, manufactured by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. It completed its first flight in November 2008 and has a maximum passenger capacity of 90 and a maximum voyage of 2,000 kilometers. “This plane filled the gap of market research, development, promo