Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Monday placed an order for 10 airplanes from Boeing worth $2.1 billion at list prices.

The new planes will allow the airline to tap additional demand at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, which was recently opened to more flights.

The carrier, Japan’s second-largest, ordered five 777-200ER jets and five more 767-300ER airliners, for a total of 185.2 billion yen (1.95 billion dollars) excluding any discounts the Japanese carrier may have negotiated. The 777s will be delivered between April 2012 and March 2014. The 767s will be delivered between April next year and March 2012.

Japanese airlines’ fleets are dominated by US-made aircraft, to the frustration of European rival Airbus.

ANA, Japan’s second largest carrier, was the launch customer for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, which has been beset by a series of delays.

The airline, which is bracing for a second straight year in the red, is shifting to more fuel-efficient planes as part of its efforts to return to profitability.

Forty passengers were reported injured after an American Airlines plane crashed and broke in two after landing at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston shortly after 10:00 pm Tuesday.

“The injured passengers have been taken to the Kingston Public Hospital,” Information Minister Daryl Vaz told the Observer. “There are no reports of fatalities.”

Flight AA331, a Boeing 737, had just arrived from Miami in pouring rain with approximately 148 passengers and six crew when the accident occurred.The company would not speculate as to possible causes of the accident and said it would make a fuller statement later on Wednesday.

The Jamaica incident is the second runway mishap for American this month. On December 13, the wing of American MD-82 struck the runway in Charlotte, North Carolina, while landing, causing damage to the plane. No one was hurt.

A woman in a wedding gown surprised her fiance by greeting him at a Texas airport along with a justice of the peace.

Robyn Moore and William Acosta exchanged vows Monday at Corpus Christi International Airport after he got off a plane arriving from Toledo, Ohio.

Acosta, who was wearing jeans and a sweater, says he was speechless and thrilled by the wedding Moore planned.

Moore says she and Acosta “spent half our relationship in airports.”

The couple got a marriage license last week and planned to tie the knot this month, at a site to be determined.

Moore and Acosta met in 2008 in Dallas, where she lived and he was on a business trip. They plan to live in Toledo.

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Air Force, Army and community officials celebrated the opening of a new cargo plane schoolhouse, here.

The C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft Schoolhouse will be used to train pilots of the C-27J, the new cargo plane used to reduce the need for ground convoys in dangerous areas.

After years of development by the Army, the C-27J Spartan program has shifted to the Air Force, but will be a joint program and both Army and Air Force pilots and loadmasters will attend the school.

The school has already been in operation at Robins Air Force Base since Sept. 9, when the first of two C-27J planes arrived here, but the school will be under development through 2011. Still to be added are an operational flight trainer and a fuselage trainer. A mockup cockpit has already been installed.

“This aircraft will provide the capability to fly in Afghanistan where they do not have the infrastructure to handle our larger aircraft,” said Army Col. Anthony Potts, the project manager for aviation systems. “It will have the capability to get supplies not within 50 miles of our forces but within the last tactical mile.”

He said after the ceremony that that the aircraft will definitely save lives if the program’s potential is fully realized.