Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said Comac's "privileged access" to the Chinese market could let it sell aircraft to other countries as well.

Since its program launch, the C919 jetliner has garnered over 1,000 orders from Chinese airlines, but it is trying to break into the Western market and puncture the decades-old Airbus-Boeing duopoly.

BEIJING--A China Eastern ... in the mountains of southern China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, The jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft ...