Shanghai, China - Dec 17, 2017
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1. C919-10102 taking off

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2. Monitoring hall
3. Various of C919-10102 on runway

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4. C919-10102 taxiing
5. Crew members getting off plane
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Guanghui, chief designer of C919, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering:
"[During the flight,] it made experiments at 29 test points, with substantial results."
7. Crew members, ground staff celebrating success of C919-10102's first trial flight
8. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yin Shijun, chief engineer, Civil Aviation Administration of China (ending with shot 8):
"When the C919 aircraft acquires a type certificate, it will gain favorable conditions to enter the international market and will be of great significance to beef up the development of China's self-developed civil aircraft."
9. Various of plane taxiing
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Linzong, spokesman, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.：
"In the next step, a total of six planes will take off for more than 1,000 tests in Dongying, east China's Shandong province, and Yanliang, northwest China's Shaanxi province."
11. C919 taxiing

The second prototype of China's home-produced C919 passenger jet successfully completed its two-hour maiden test flight on Sunday in Shanghai, marking a key milestone as the country looks to become a major player in the civil aviation industry.

The plane, with the code number 10102, took off shortly after 10:30 at Shanghai Pudong International Airport and landed after 12:30. It tested the performance of the C919 major systems and equipment, such as taking-off and landing, navigation and communication, speed acceleration and deceleration.

The successful flight means that the C919 has gradually opened a new phase of full-scale test flights. It is expected that the aircraft will complete the test flights and obtain an airworthiness certificate in three to four years' time, laying an important foundation to put it into operation.

Wu Guanghui, chief designer of the C919 and academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was very satisfied with the trial flight.

"[During the flight,] it completed 29 test points, with substantial results," he said.

The research and development of the C919 aircraft has gained remarkable progress over the past year. The first prototype of the C919 made its maiden flight in May and completed its first inter-city flight in November. Less than a month later, the second plane launched its first test flight.

Manufactured by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the C919 is a 150-seat single-aisle passenger jetliner designed to meet with international airworthiness criteria. So far, orders for 785 C919 aircrafts have been made for the aircraft from 27 Chinese and foreign clients.

"When the C919 aircraft acquires a type certificate, it will gain favorable conditions to enter the international market and will be of great significance to beef up the development of China’s self-developed civil aircraft," said Yin Shijun, chief engineer with China's Civil Aviation Administration.

To earn an airworthiness certificate, six C919 planes will undergo test flights while two others will undergo ground tests.

"In the next step, a total of six planes will take off for more than 1,000 tests in Dongying of east China's Shandong Province, and Yanliang in northwest China's Shaanxi Province," said Liu Linzong, spokesman with COMAC.

With a standard range of 4,075 kilometers, the C919 jet is comparable to the updated Airbus 320 and Boeing's new generation 737.