China's C919 passenger plane makes maiden flight

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China hopes the C919 will end the dominance of Airbus and Boeing - but it relies on Western components.

China's first domestically produced passenger jet has taken off on its maiden commercial flight.

State TV showed the C919 rising into the skies above Shanghai, heading to the capital Beijing early on Sunday.

It was built by the Commercial Aviation Corporation of China (Comac) in the hope...