The show is happening at a delicate time for Boeing, which is coming off its best month for sales in a year and a half and a deadly plane crash in India involving one of its aircraft.

Every other year, thousands of visitors flock to a Paris suburb for the Paris Air Show, one of the aerospace industry’s biggest events. The atmosphere is typically celebratory, but the recent deadly crash of an Air India flight cast a shadow over the show this week.

The contrasting moods were apparent in the rivalry between two of the show’s most prominent aircraft manufacturers: Airbus and Boeing. Airbus said it had withheld some announcements, but still promoted a wave of orders for new commercial jets. Boeing kept an unusually low profile, reporting no deals. The company said it had canceled some plans out of respect for those killed in the crash of Air India Flight 171

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