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Lion Air Commits to Buying Boeing 787 Dreamliners for New Full-Service Airline Batik Air [UPDATED]
Indonesia's Lion Air has committed to buying an undisclosed number of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the airframer announced on Friday. The new planes will be used by Batik Air, a new full-service carrier to be launched by Lion in 2013.
Airplane! Star Leslie Nielsen Dead at Age 84
Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, best known for his roles in the movies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has passed away in Florida of pneumonia.
Boeing Forecasts $4 Trillion Airliner Market by 2030
In a conference call this morning, Boeing gave it’s current market outlook for this year and the future for commercial airplanes, forecasting growth in the market as a whole to the tune of around 5% a year.
Landing a Perfect Ten
“I’m the passenger in 9C," said the stranger on the flight deck. "I want to know who will be flying because my friends and I are going to judge the landing in Chicago on a scale from one to ten."
Seaplane Crash Kills Former Alaska State Legislator
Former Alaska state legislator Cheryll Heinze was killed Tuesday when a seaplane crashed in a lake near Homer, Alaska. Four others survived.