Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AIR Says Brussels Attacks Have Limited Insurer Impact; FERMA Issues Comment
Mar 24 2016 // The deadly coordinated attacks in Brussels on March 22, which killed 33 people and wounded 260. are expected to have limited impact on the insurance industry, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Loss of...
Brit Leads New Commercial General Aviation Consortium at Lloyd’s
Mar 23 2016 // Brit Ltd., the global specialty insurer, has launched a Lloyd’s consortium for commercial general aviation. Now quoting business, the consortium is being led by Brit with capacity also being provided by Kiln, Hiscox,...
Update: Explosions Rip Through Brussels Airport & Subway; Death Toll Rises
Mar 22 2016 // Belgium was on the highest terror-alert level after three bombings in Brussels on Tuesday killed at least 31, injured more than 180 and raised fears of follow-up attacks. Prime Minister Charles Michel, condemning the...
FlyDubai CEO Defends Decision to Land Plane in Bad Weather Before Fatal Crash
Mar 21 2016 // FlyDubai’s top executive said conditions for landing were appropriate when one of its flights crashed at a windy airport in southern Russia, even though three other carriers rerouted flights to other...
HOT Markets: Drones, Cyber and More
Mar 21 2016 // Looking for new sales and opportunities in 2016? Here are a few of the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry this year. Sky’s...
ArgoGlobal Launches Insure4Drones, Online Portal for UK Drone Insurance
Mar 15 2016 // ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, today announces the launch of Insure4Drones. The online portal, developed with approved Lloyd’s coverholder JRW Group, offers click-and-buy insurance...
Aon Launches Charter Flight Cancellation Coverage
Mar 14 2016 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, launched an insurance product for the charter aircraft industry addressing the financial losses associated with the cancellation of...
Germanwings Probe Urges Change for Pilots’ Medical Privacy, License-Loss Cover
Mar 14 2016 // Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under a proposal from the French air-safety agency that investigated the deliberate crash of a...
N.D. Aviation Business Operator Sues Airport Director for Discrimination
Mar 11 2016 // A woman who operates an aviation business at the Minot, N.D., airport has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the airport director who quit last week after spearheading construction of a new terminal. Eva Lucke,...
U.K. Eyes Requiring Drones to Fit Anti-Collision Technology for Aviation Safety
Mar 10 2016 // Britain is considering whether civilian drones will have to be fitted with technology intended to prevent collisions with airplanes after a series of near-misses around airports. “The U.K. government and the Civil...
Senate Bill Would Require Testing Drone Operators on Rules of the Sky
Mar 10 2016 // All U.S. drone operators would for the first time have to prove they understand aviation regulations under broad legislation introduced Wednesday in the Senate. A bill setting policy for the Federal Aviation Administration...
Real-Time Tracking to Be Required for Aircraft, After MH370 Disappearance
Mar 8 2016 // The U.N.’s aviation agency on Monday announced new requirements for the real-time tracking of civilian aircraft in distress, following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 two years ago. The...
Altitude Risk Partners Appoints Audis as Senior Aviation Underwriter
Mar 7 2016 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, has expanded its general aviation capabilities with the appointment of Martin Audis as senior underwriter. Audis joins from Starr Aviation where...
California’s Porter Ranch Blowout Highlights Evacuation Risk
Mar 7 2016 // Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series on the oil and gas industry. The first article covered the important changes that occurred in 2015 and the significance of the Porter Ranch, Calif., blowout that...
Drone Flies Within 20 Feet of Air France Jet Above Paris; Investigation Under Way
Mar 4 2016 // A drone came within 5 meters (20 feet) of a potentially catastrophic collision with an Air France plane coming in to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, marking one of the closest encounters so far between one of the...
Part from Missing Malaysia Flight 370 Said to Have Been Found off Mozambique
Mar 2 2016 // Investigators probing the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are examining an object found on the coast of Mozambique they suspect came from the missing Boeing Co. 777, a person familiar with the...
Allianz Launches Workers’ Comp Unit for Aviation Risks
Mar 2 2016 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has entered into an agreement with the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) through which it has established a new aviation workers’ compensation department....
Marsh & McLennan Acquires Missouri-Based Aviation Solutions
Mar 1 2016 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, announced it has acquired Aviation Solutions LLC, an aviation risk advisor and insurance broker based in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Terms of...
Alaska Flight Company Ordered to Compensate Whistleblower Pilot
Feb 25 2016 // A federal agency has ordered an Alaska flight service company to compensate and rehire a pilot fired after reporting safety concerns four years ago. The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Climate Change’s No Justice, No Pancake, No Fly Zone
Feb 18 2016 // A conceivable diminishment in my pancake experience is what I’ll take away from the last two weeks of weird headlines tied to the topic of climate change. However, it was the rancor over the death of Supreme Court...
