From the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/boeing-737-max-8-aircraft-crash-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/bo

From the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/boeing-737-max-8-aircraft-crash-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/boeing-737-max-8...: > On a commercial level, China’s aviation sector could actually benefit from the tragedies in Indonesia and Ethiopia. A government-owned company in Shanghai has begun doing flight tests of a Chinese-made alternative to the Boeing 737, called the Comac C919. The C919 is the cornerstone of China’s effort to build a commercial aviation competitor to Boeing and Airbus. It's worth noting that a) the C919 program has been severely troubled, and b) this hasn't stopped the Chinese government from arm-twisting Chinese airlines into over 1000 (!) orders. The original plan was for entry into service by 2014; as of now, they're still refining prototypes for test flights and the current goal of 2021 looks optimistic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919#2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919#2018 Comac's other airliner, the ARJ21 regional jet, is (barely) in service but is not faring much better: "Initial operational feedback of aircraft was rather poor. The biggest issue was inability of the aircraft to land on wet runways." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21 ...and per FlightRadar24, sole customer Chengdu Airlines is no longer flying its ARJ21s: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airlines/eu-uea/fleet https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airlines/eu-uea/fleet