787 Dreamliner is the 'best-selling plane of its type'

YESTERDAY'S crash was the first involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

- By Neil Lancefield

The aircraft type, which entered service in 2011, is described by the US manufacturer as “the best-selling passenger widebody of all time” - with more than 2,000 orders from 89 customers.

The planes have carried more than one billion passengers on nearly five million flights.