China displayed its aircraft-manufacturing credentials by conducting a flyby of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour with a domestically made passenger plane designed to take on Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies.
Commercial Aircraft Corp of China, the official name of planemaker Comac, flew its C919 jet around the harbour in two loops on Saturday morning, going as low as 213 metres, according to FlightRadar24’s live data. The last major new aircraft to do a low-altitude Victoria Harbour flyby was an Airbus A380 in 2007.
Comac say they have received 1,061 orders for their C919. Only three are operating commercially so far, domestically in China.
On an embarrassing Sunday, Liverpool somehow contrived to drop their first points of the season at Anfield against the worst team to visit, drawing 0-0 with Manchester United.
Unbelievably, the former had a total of 34 shots against the latter and not one landed in the back of the net – making it the Reds’ most on record in the Premier League without a goal since Opta‘s stats were first recorded in 2003/04.
Liverpool dominated possession but were too often wasteful and had to settle for a point, not enough to overhaul Arsenal whose earlier 2-0 win against Brighton took them to the summit.
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