Latest Aviation Headlines
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UK Space Travel Insurer Sees No Spike in Queries after Virgin Crash
Nov 10 2014 // UK insurer Pembroke Managing Agency, who recently began offering life coverage for would-be space tourists, said it has seen no increase in interest in the policy following the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic test space...
4 Dead as Plane Crashes into Flight Training Center in Kansas
Nov 7 2014 // The fatal crash of a small plane into a flight safety training center at the Wichita Airport has disrupted pilot training on some Cessna models, but efforts are being made to provide alternatives, company officials said. A...
CNA Appoints Execs to Hardy’s Energy, Marine, Aviation Team
Nov 6 2014 // CNA Financial Corporation announced several senior appointments to the Energy, Marine and Aviation (EMA) team of London-based Hardy (Underwriting Agencies) Limited, an independent wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of CNA,...
1st Lawsuit Filed Over Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
Nov 3 2014 // Two children of a passenger on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 have sued the company and the Malaysian government for damages, the first lawsuit to be filed over the aircraft which disappeared in March. The two Malaysian...
2 Explosions Trigger Debate Over Future of Private Space Business
Nov 2 2014 // Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It’s what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo. In the...
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes; Co-Pilot Reported Dead
Oct 31 2014 // A spacecraft for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Ltd. tourism operator crashed during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert, killing the co-pilot and injuring the pilot. The pilot ejected and suffered...
NTSB: Southwest Pilot Took Controls From Co-Pilot Before NYC Crash
Oct 30 2014 // The co-pilot of a Southwest Airlines Co. plane that crash landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in July 2013 said the captain put her hand on his as he was controlling the throttles and reduced the plane’s...
AIG Offers Loss Control for Corporate Aerospace Customers
Oct 30 2014 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has partnered with Wyvern Consulting, an aviation risk management and safety auditing firm, to launch AirGuard safety and loss control services designed to address safety and...
Space Station Supply Rocket That Exploded Insured for $50 Million
Oct 29 2014 // Authorities on Wednesday started investigating what made an unmanned U.S. supply rocket explode in a fireball moments after lifting off from a launch pad in Virginia, destroying supplies and equipment bound for the...
Aon: Planning, Communications Will Keep Real Risk of Ebola in Perspective
Oct 29 2014 // With concerns growing in the U.S. over Ebola exposure — New York City confirmed its first case of Ebola Thursday, Oct. 23 — an executive from Aon plc advised it’s important for businesses to engage in...
12 Articles on Ebola Risk and Insurance
Oct 24 2014 // 1. Ebola ‘Tipping Point’ Could Come By Late January, Reports RMS Until the number of new daily cases declines rather than increases, the severity of the outbreak will continue to multiply. RMS said it does not...
Russia Air Safety Record Near Bottom of Global League
Oct 23 2014 // Regardless of who is to blame for the death of Total’s boss at the Moscow airport favored by President Vladimir Putin, it reinforces an indisputable fact: Russia’s air-safety record is dreadful and the wave of...
Record Aviation Claims Driving Up Premiums
Oct 21 2014 // Insurers worldwide are going to have to pay up to a record $800 million to cover the damage done by attacks on airplanes this year, driving prices up and drawing rivals into the market. The hefty bill dwarfs the $60-$90...
SterlingRisk Insurance Launches Aircraft Business Income Cover
Oct 21 2014 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a privately-owned brokerage based in Woodbury, N.Y., has launched aircraft business income coverage designed for both the aircraft owner and operator to protect their expected charter revenue from...
NTSB: Pilot Error in Fatal Plane Crash in Louisiana
Oct 13 2014 // A National Transportation Safety Board report cites pilot inexperience with the aircraft as the likely cause of a fatal crash in Baker last year. The Advocate reports John Cary Fowler had plenty of experience as a pilot,...
Stepped-Up Ebola Screening Starts at New York’s JFK Airport
Oct 13 2014 // Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries on Saturday, Oct. 11, in a stepped-up screening effort...
Ebola Tests Insurers’ Medical Evacuation Services As Airlines Cut Flights
Oct 13 2014 // Leading companies offering medical evacuation services are drawing a line at flying Ebola patients out of West Africa for treatment abroad as the cost and the complexities of the deadly epidemic grow. Several airlines have...
Judge Rules for Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, Whistleblower Lawsuit
Oct 10 2014 // Three former workers at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kan., who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the aircraft maker and one of its suppliers failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6 billion...
Scientists Calculate Risk of Ebola Spreading to France, Britain
Oct 7 2014 // Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that...
New York’s SterlingRisk Appoints Wolf as Executive VP
Oct 3 2014 // SterlingRisk, a national insurance brokerage based in Woodbury, New York, has hired Barry Wolf as executive vice president of the aviation division. Wolf will be responsible for developing the firm’s Aircraft...
