The batteries are suspected of contributing to two jumbo-jet 747 freighter crashes since 2010.

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And Boeing would continue to milk its jumbo-jet monopoly.

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Recent weeks have also seen renewed hostilities over funding for the development of Airbus's new super-jumbo jet, the A3XX .

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The 43-year-old jumbo jet design still whisks us across oceans and will, I expect, make it to a half-century of service.

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Eldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana may have sold her Boeing 747-200 jumbo jet, but the family's fleet of planes included, at least until recently, a DC-10, a blue-and-red Boeing 737, a Canadian Challenger 601 and a BAC-111.

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Kennedy airport, when an Air France Airbus A380 clipped the tail fins of a much smaller Comair flight CRJ700, observers and analysts have been asking questions about whether a similar accident could happen elsewhere, and just when a super-large jumbo jet is too big.

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In 1978, an Air India jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Bombay, killing 213.

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As quickly as that, the C-17 passed underneath the Air Canada jumbo jet with 103 people on board.

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The bullet plane once did New York to London in 2 hours, 52 minutes--65% quicker than your typical jumbo jet.

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