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By Julie Johnsson

January 14, 2020 at 10:49 AM EST

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January 14, 2020 at 2:26 PM EST

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Boeing Co. lost the title of world’s largest planemaker as the 737 Max grounding sent the company to its biggest defeat in a 45-year duel with Airbus SE.

Deliveries tumbled to just 380 jetliners last year, Boeing said in a statement Tuesday. That was less than half of Airbus’s tally of 863 planes.

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