there was a chinese airline or two canceling orders and switching to smaller beauings and european airbusa330s. >> reporter: that's right, 24 planes, new planes were canceled by china last week and cite that the delay was one of the reasons that they were fed up with waiting, they were going to go for the boeing 737s, a similar number of boeings, that is smaller but reflects a little nervousness about the out jook for the aviation industry. apart from that this is still the fastest boeing -- fastest new plane that boeing has launched, 821 orders to -- one has been delivered. another on their way so a backlog of 819 to clear. interesting though, that at the moment charles there are only going to be building two of these per month. want to get that up to ten per month by 2013 which is a pretty aggressive timetable to ramp up a plane of this size -- of this difference as far as the assembly goes. another radical departure. boeing looked eight years ago an said let's make one based on the auto industry. you fit them all together in one giant assembly. this is what they've been trying to do bu

the plane we use is the airbus which has the longest range of commercial planes. >> is there any thing that could go further than that? >> you need to go halfway around the world. >> singapore airlines has a fascinating history. >> yes. we go back a long way. 1947, we started life and we became singapore airlines in 1972. since then, we have grown and from a small airline with a couple of boeing 707s to what we have now. what countries, did they fly to? with a passenger or cargo? >> it was passenger and in southeast asia. in those days, planes did not go very far. from the region are round malaysia, we went up to hong kong and it was later and we started a venture for europe and australia. >> as aviation developed as well, longer range -- >> that's right. you talk about singapore airlines having grown up from those early days. right now, if you look that last year or a couple of years ago, how many passengers might fly on the singapore air or the other of your subsidies? throughout the entire year? >> we carry about 16 million passengers. >> how many aircraft do have? >> just over 100.

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opening the new airbus factory. if you look across the auto industry whether it is toyota or land rover. all these companies are expanding and bringing more of their production and supply chain on shore. a huge amount more to do but we have to start on a low base manufacturing production declines over the last decade. >> will the prime minister join me in welcoming four million pounds saving money to the people and the secretary's education with funding as soon as possible. >> discussions about national funding formula are ongoing. it is a difficult issue to resolve because the historic pattern of differences of funding around the country. i do think it was a major step forward and of to 2.6 billion by the end of this parliament. in that report it says we have made spending on education much more progressive by the actions we have taken. we have taken difficult decisions but at the heart of it was a decision to protect the school budget and funding and on top of that to add to people. to make sure that we are less w

fantastic news when abbott and boeing decided for major-selling airplane, the boeing 737 as well as the airbus 320 to come out with new products and they're all aluminum based and the major part is alcoa aluminum. we've seen in the auto industry, fuel efficiency regulations coming in and the white house now has a proposal out that's going the ramp that up even morement we have no major customer in the automotive industry who is not having a major problem. >> what about in europe? what can you tell us about the economic outlook there giving all of the debt crisis that the region is going through? >> well, i think it's very unfortunate what happens in europe because the discussion in europe is continuing too long and it's creating a lot of... destroying a lot of confidence, and we actually do see that it has a physical impact. europe is the only regional place where we do see demand all across the board, and we saw slow august and july, which is kind of normal in europe, given the vacation time, but then nothing came back in september. and the unfortunate thing is these things are all involvable

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the man, by the way, also flew on the first trip of the airbus 380 and boeing's 747 debut a few yearsifornia grandmother. it was taken from her when she tried to sell it and insists it was given to her husband when he worked on the apolicy bow missions years ago. the fed arrested her years ago but she was never charged with a crime. how could you arrest this woman? >> we will find out. >>> steve jobs was a ceo, a innovator and a perfectist and a very private person and may be one of the reasons many are fascinated with anything about steve jobs especially with his death three weeks ago. >> walter isaacson is with us. you have been a popular man this week. how has the week been for you? how has it been received the reviews? >> it's been nice. people are very interested in steve because the way he was both emotional and private, but that emotionalism connected to all of his products. so i think the personality, the products, the company, they are all kind of intertwined because of the passion he had, the passion for perfection. you see it in sort of everything he did. >> yeah. i think t

coming down the taxi way and you look at the regional jet there, the airbus clips the regional jet and lifts it up, kind of turning it side ways like a little toy. that was one of them. boom, right there. another one, at jfka. near miss, when an egypt airplane nearly crossed on to a runway, as a luv hansa plane was getting ready to take off. remember this frantic call from the air traffic controller? play this: >> cancel takeoff, cancel takeoff plans. >> rejecting takeoff. >> all traffic is stopped right now. >> they shut down the entire runway there, that turned out to be the fault of the egypt air pilot. the gao also looked at mistakes by controllers handling approaches and departures within 30 miles. those have doubled in just the past three years, including this year, reagan national airport, when the united jet nearly collided with a private jet because the air traffic controller didn't separate them properly. that's when the pilot said, quote, that was close, now the faa says it's not sure if their numbers are actually going up or if there are more reports because they have a new

it happened to a jetblue airbus flying from puerto rico to boston. six passengers suffered back or neck injuries and one suffered a serious burn from coffee. >> i saw the plane go down, down, down, i said oh, my god. >> it was so scary, i thought, my god, this could be it. but it didn't last that long. it was quite a surprise. >> the lufthansa plane ran into rough air on a flight from charlotte, north carolina to munich, germany. it was diverted to boston with 11 injured passengers. no word on the extent of their injuries. >>> what started as a protest against wall street and whatever is gaining steam nationwide. this melee erupted saturday when police arrested more than 700 demonstrators as they attempted to march across a bridge into lower manhattan. the demonstrators are part of the occupy wall street protest. they've been protesting everything from what they call wall street breed to high prices at the gas station and inadequate health insurance. their movement has inspired similar protests in several other cities, including chicago, los angeles