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COMAC C919 completes high elevated landing at Tibet’s Lhasa airport
September 20th 2024
A COMAC C919 program has performed a high-elevated environment landing at Tibet’s Lhasa Gonggar International Airport after a two-hour eight minute flight from Chengdu in China. Read More » Lhasa Airport is 3,569 meters above sea level. The flight ran tests of C919 systems including environmental control, avionics, power units and high altitude airport adaptability inspections. Separately, a COMAC ARJ21 is performing "Around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" demonstration flights. The regional jet has completed 25 routes, 55 flight segments and 62 hours of flight missions covering 11 high altitude airports. It has operated to Daocheng Yading Airport, the world’s highest civil airport, four times, verifying the adaptability of the ARJ21 to high-altitude operations.
