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Kansas Judge Tosses Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems Discrimination Lawsuit
Jan 9 2015 // The remaining age-discrimination claims against Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems were tossed out by a federal judge in Kansas on Jan. 7, a major blow to a lawsuit that’s spanned nine years. When Boeing sold its...
Mystery Crashes Spawn Deadliest Year for Air Travel in Nearly a Decade
Jan 8 2015 // Three crashes which have yet to be fully explained, involving the most modern airliners in the safest phase of flight, made last year the deadliest for air travel in almost a decade. The loss of two Malaysian Air Boeing...
ANALYSIS: AirAsia Crash Makes Case for Ejectable Black Boxes
Jan 8 2015 // A long-delayed proposal to outfit commercial airliners with ejectable “black box” recorders may have a better chance of being adopted following the AirAsia crash in the Java Sea, according to three sources at...
UN Aviation Agency to Propose 15-Minute Flight Tracking Standard
Jan 7 2015 // The United Nations aviation agency will propose a new standard that requires commercial aircraft to report their position every 15 minutes as part of a global tracking initiative in the aftermath of the disappearance of a...
AirAsia’s Insurers See ‘No Problems’ with Claims-Indonesia Regulator
Jan 6 2015 // Insurers have begun processing claims in the crash of an Indonesia AirAsia aircraft last month and hope to identify the beneficiaries by the end of January, an official from Indonesia’s financial regulator said on...
UPDATE: Divers Hunt AirAsia Jet in Larger Area Amid Bad Weather
Jan 5 2015 // Indonesian Navy divers hunted for more wreckage and recorders from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as inclement weather and mud at the bottom of the sea hampered their efforts. Three more bodies were recovered today,...
France Sends Expert Search Team to Air Asia Jet Crash Scene
Jan 2 2015 // France’s BEA crash investigation agency said a specialist black box search team and equipment arrived on Friday at the search area for the Indonesia AirAsia flight which crashed on Sunday en route from Indonesia to...
AirAsia Search Hampered by Bad Weather; Black Box Locater Deployed
Jan 2 2015 // Search teams looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner’s black box will deploy side-scan sonar and pinger locaters as inclement weather off Indonesia’s coast hinders efforts to recover bodies and the...
U.S. Drone Regulations Delayed
Jan 1 2015 // The United States missed a year-end deadline for publishing new rules on remote-control aircraft, delaying an eagerly awaited step toward using drones in everything from farming to package delivery. Businesses have been...
Crowded Skies in Southeast Asia Put Stress on Pilots, Air Traffic Controllers
Dec 31 2014 // The sheer volume of flights in the skies over Southeast Asia is putting pressure on outdated air traffic control and on pilots to take risky unilateral action in crises such as that possibly faced by AirAsia Flight...
Adverse Weather Hinders Efforts to Recover AirAsia Flight Data Recorders
Dec 31 2014 // Indonesian authorities began deploying divers to find debris from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as a day of adverse weather hindered efforts to find the plane’s black boxes. Searchers recovered seven bodies so...
Most Popular Insurance Journal International Stories of 2014
Dec 31 2014 // Listed below are 10 of the most popular articles that appeared in the international section on Insurance Journal in 2014 in no particular order: Somali Pirates Driven Off in First Attack of 2014 – After this first...
Update: Debris From AirAsia Plane Found in Ocean; First Bodies Retrieved
Dec 30 2014 // Indonesian search crews recovered debris and bodies floating in the sea from the AirAsia Bhd. airliner that went missing three days ago with 162 people on board, as investigators seek to determine what brought down the...
TransAsia Pilots Couldn’t Find Runway Before Fatal Crash: Accident Report
Dec 29 2014 // Pilots of a fatal July 23 TransAsia Airways Corp. flight couldn’t find the runway seconds before their aircraft crashed on Taiwan’s outlying Penghu islands, killing 48 people, according to a recently released...
After 4 Air Crashes, 2014 Is One of Worst Years for Asian Aviation Industry
Dec 29 2014 // Four airline incidents in which more than 600 people died made 2014 one of the worst years for Asian aviation even before the disappearance of AirAsia Bhd. QZ8501. The unresolved disappearance of Malaysian Airline System...
Search Widens for AirAsia Plane, No Emergency Signal Detected
Dec 29 2014 // Planes and ships from four nations scoured the Java Sea for an AirAsia Bhd. passenger jet that vanished off the coast of Borneo more than a day ago with 162 people on board, as Indonesian investigators said the jet had...
Allianz Lead Reinsurer for Missing AirAsia Plane; JLT Broker
Dec 29 2014 // German insurer Allianz said on Monday it was the lead re-insurer to the AirAsia jet missing off the Indonesian coast with 162 people on board, making it the third major airline accident it has been involved in this...
Iowa DPS Report: Wait On Drone Regulation
Dec 24 2014 // Iowa should take a wait-and-see approach to regulating unmanned aerial vehicles because of their huge potential for positive uses in business and government, the Iowa Department of Public Safety advises in a new...
Prison Sites at Salt Lake City Could Get Hit By Tsunami
Dec 23 2014 // The ground shakes violently and then a wall of salty, brine-shrimp-laden water crashes into the Utah State Prison. The cells of the state’s most dangerous inmates start to flood. Panicked Corrections officers must...
Drone Risks Require More Safety Regulation, IATA Chief Says
Dec 15 2014 // The surging popularity of inexpensive radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters raises risks that require a firm response from regulators to ensure safety, the head of a leading commercial aviation trade group told...
