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How Mitsubishi Heavy's hubris brought SpaceJet down to earth

Delay-plagued $10bn project offers cautionary tale about national pride

The SpaceJet project was intended to propel Japan to the top of the aerospace value chain. (Photo from Mitsubishi Aircraft's Twitter account)
AZUSA KAWAKAMI and ANNU NISHIOKA, Nikkei staff writers | Japan

TOKYO -- After sinking 12 years and more than 1 trillion yen ($9.55 billion) into the SpaceJet, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has decided to suspend its project to build Japan's first homegrown passenger plane in decades.

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