Chinese Jet Makes Historic Taiwan Flight
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Chinese jetliners carrying Taiwanese took off Saturday on the first flights to rival Taiwan by mainland carriers since the two sides split amid civil war in 1949.
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With a defiant streak across the sky, the fastest plane in the world broke its own speed record before plunging into the sea for the last time.
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TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities have denied reports that President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s plane was targeted by Chinese fighter jets when he was flying over the Taiwan Strait.
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China proposed Wednesday one-off,  non-stop charter flights between Chinese and Taiwan cities  during the Lunar New Year holidays in February in a move seen  aimed at easing tension between the foes.
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Taiwan was optimistic about negotiations with China to launch landmark direct flights between the two rivals for next month's Lunar New Year holidays, a government official said.
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Commercial jetliners from Taiwan and China took off on Saturday for the first non-stop flights in 55 years across the narrow strait dividing the arch- foes, raising hopes for permanent air links and better ties.
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After almost three decades of lacking direct flight, a US passenger plane on Thursday left San Francisco for Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about  7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test  of cutting-edge engine technology.
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Air China, the biggest airline in China, raised $1.07bn (Â£558m), after pricing its flotation near the top of its range, sources said.
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The Taiwanese president's flight to an outlying island several weeks ago was diverted because 28 Chinese fighter jets were spotted in the area, a major Taiwanese newspaper reported Thursday.
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The world's biggest jumbo jet was set to fly from Singapore on Thursday on its long-delayed first-ever commercial flight, as part of the Singapore Airlines daily service to Sydney.
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A commuter aircraft with 47 passengers and six crew members on board has crashed in China&#39;s Inner Mongolia region. All 53 people are reported to have been killed when the Canadian-built China Eastern aircraft
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The photo taken on Nov. 21, 2004 shows wreckage of a crashed airplane in a lake in Baotou, north China&#39;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Chinese authorities said Monday that the airplane crash in Baotou was not caused by &quot;man-made factors,&quot; despite reports that the plane was flying erratically.
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The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, lands in Sydney on its first commercial flight.
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A British Airways plane on a flight from China made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday, officials said.
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ON BOARD FLIGHT SQ380 - The world's largest jetliner made aviation history yesterday, completing its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 455 passengers, some of them in luxury suites and double beds.