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The episode in which the returning captain had to act quickly to save the airliner from a near stall was discovered by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, an airline industry group, as it reviewed thousands of reports filed by pilots to NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System to see if automation caused pilots to mishandle problems or to become confused or distracted.

Urged on by Deng, by 1985 it had designed a civil airliner from scratch in less than five years.

It takes at least 12 years and $15 billion to take a new airliner from drawing board to test flight.

People who fly on a commercial airliner from the U.S. typically change planes in Paris or London.

Meanwhile, gunmen opened fire on an airliner from Saudi Arabia as it came in to land at Peshawar, killing a passenger.

To get there, you have to take a commercial airliner from Oslo to Bergen, and then a helicopter to the North Sea platform.

In an attempt to restore service, Horizon will borrow 13 jet airliners from Alaska Airlines, a corporate sibling, each with about twice the seating capacity of the Q400s.

Boeing's exclusive contracts forbade the three airlines in question, which together accounted for around 11% of demand for airliners, from talking in any serious way to Airbus about future projects.

John J. Leahy, senior vice president for sales at Airbus, said he expected airlines to order a total of only 300 to 350 large civilian airliners from Airbus and Boeing this year, down from 546 in 2001.

After initial hesitation from airlines (most of which had committed to popular and less-expensive propeller-driven airliners from rival firms), but buttressed by sales to the U.S. Air Force in the form of an aerial tanker (the KC-135 Stratotanker), the four-engine plane, designated the 707, went into commercial service in 1958 on a Pan American transatlantic route.

However, even the Stratocruiser faded against better, faster piston-engine airliners from Douglas and Lockheed.