First US commercial flight in 30 years lands in Vietnam
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HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - The first US passenger jet to fly to Vietnam since the war ended almost 30 years ago landed in Ho Chi Minh City Friday.
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The first direct commercial Chinese flight to Taiwan in 55 years lands in Taipei, as a Taiwanese plane heads for Beijing.
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Iraqi Airways resumed international flights for the first time in 14 years, with a plane taking off Saturday from neighboring Jordan for Baghdad and another leaving the Iraqi capital for Damascus, Syria.
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A UAL Corp. United Airlines flight touched down in Ho Chi Minh City tonight, the first US passenger carrier to fly into Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War almost three decades ago.
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For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet was on its way to Vietnam on Friday. United Flight 869 took off from San Francisco
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Vietnamese-Americans living in St. Cloud are heralding the flight of the first US passenger jet to land in their homeland since the Vietnam War ended almost 30 years ago.
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United Airlines became the first US carrier to fly to Vietnam since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, marking a new milestone in relations between the former enemies as VIPs on board were greeted at the airport with lotus blossoms and silk lanterns.
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The first airliner from Taiwan to land in Beijing in more than 55 years touched down in the Chinese capital on Saturday to fanfare as part of special charter flights between the arch-foes for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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The world's biggest jumbo jet lifted off safely on Thursday from Singapore on its long-delayed first commercial flight, as part of Singapore Airlines' daily service to Sydney.
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SAN FRANCISCO A United Airlines plane has taken off on the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam in almost three decades.
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The costliest international warplane  project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely  completed its first test flight on Friday, advancing a $276.5  billion program financed by the United States and eight other  countries.
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In Friday&#39;s national and international briefs, the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam since 1975 is underway, Cpl.
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AMMAN - National carrier Iraqi Airways launched its first international flight in 14 years on Saturday, with a plane taking off from Amman to Baghdad - but without any passengers.
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BAGHDAD : National carrier Iraqi Airways resumed international commercial flights for the first time in 14 years, flying between Amman, Baghdad and Damascus, although with few passengers on board.
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TRANSATLANTIC travellers could be in the US in minutes rather than hours after a supersonic jet screamed into the record books. The unmanned NASA jet reached speeds of almost 7,000 mph
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The world's biggest jumbo jet landed safely in Sydney on Thursday, completing its long-delayed first commercial flight from Singapore.
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United Airlines Flight 869, from San Francisco, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, at shortly after 10:00 pm Friday (10 am EST).