The Boeing 737-800 NG is widely used around the world.

The Boeing 737-800 NG, the mannequin that crashed in China on Monday, is a workhorse of the skies.

There are almost 25,000 passenger planes in service worldwide, in accordance with Cirium, an aviation knowledge supplier. Of these, about 4,200, or 17 p.c, are Boeing 737-800 NGs. China is residence to just about 1,200 of these planes, adopted by Europe, with almost 1,000, and the USA, with almost 800.

American Airways has 265 737-800 NGs in service, whereas Southwest Airways has 205, United Airways has 136 and Delta Air Strains has 77, in accordance with Cirium. Boeing delivered almost 5,000 of the planes to clients between 1998 and 2020, in accordance with Boeing knowledge.

China is the biggest marketplace for Boeing planes after the USA. Final 12 months, Boeing forecast that the variety of industrial planes in China would double by 2040, with Chinese language airways needing 8,700 new plane by then, valued at about $1.47 trillion.

The nation is probably extra essential for Boeing’s main rival, Airbus. Final 12 months, Airbus delivered 142 industrial plane to China, its largest single-country market, representing 1 / 4 of Airbus’s world industrial plane manufacturing.

Airbus has a mammoth meeting line within the metropolis of Tianjin, producing the A320 single-aisle planes and A330 wide-body passenger jets. It additionally has relationships with Chinese language airline and helicopter operators, and lots of parts in Airbus jets are made by Chinese language firms. The worth of the Airbus and Chinese language cooperation reached round $500 million in 2015.

Liz Alderman contributed reporting.