Latest Aviation Headlines
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NSM Insurance Group Acquires Texas-Based Specialty Aviation Underwriters
Oct 2 2014 // NSM Insurance Group announced the acquisition of Specialty Aviation Underwriters (SAU), located in Addison, Texas. Founded over 20 years ago, SAU specializes in aviation products. NSM Insurance Group underwrites more than...
80 People Being Monitored in Dallas Ebola Case
Oct 2 2014 // More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said. The people have been asked to report to...
Aon Benfield Launches Private Charter Aviation Product
Oct 1 2014 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced the launch of a new insurance product, developed by Aon Benfield’s ReSolutions team that “is set to drive growth in...
Lawmakers Question the Adequacy of Traffic Control After Fire Halts Flights
Sep 29 2014 // The havoc created by a suicidal technician at a Chicago-area flight-control center has some lawmakers asking how a single person armed with gasoline and knives could bring down part of the U.S. air-traffic system. Damage...
Cell Phone Use Deemed Safe on Europe Airlines
Sep 26 2014 // European airlines received permission from regulators to have passengers use personal electronic devices including mobile phones during flight, removing one of the last remaining bastions of talk-free zones. The European...
Lawsuit Over Boeing Worker’s Death Blocked by Justices
Sep 23 2014 // Washington’s Supreme Court says in a split decision that Boeing can’t be sued over a worker’s death from asbestos exposure. Worker Gary Walston was exposed to asbestos throughout his long career at...
Losses by Business Sector
Sep 22 2014 // Aviation Improvements in airline safety are leading to far fewer catastrophic losses overall, despite 2014’s extraordinary loss activity. However, the cost of aviation claims is rising, driven by the widespread use...
Hurricane Odile Brings Storm Surge, Flooding to Mexican Peninsula
Sep 15 2014 // Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with high winds and rain. Odile went ashore near the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at about 10:45...
Mexico Issues Hurricane Warning as Odile Strikes
Sep 15 2014 // Mexico issued a hurricane warning for parts of Baja California as Odile struck the resort area of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the peninsula. Mexico declared a red alert along the coastline as well as the mainland...
More Pilots in Crashes Testing Positive for Prescription, Other Drugs
Sep 10 2014 // Four times as many pilots killed in airplane crashes tested positive for drugs over the past two decades, tracking a broader societal trend in the use of antihistamines, painkillers and marijuana. While most of the...
Ukraine Air-Crash Probe Points to Missile Strike on Malaysia Jet
Sep 9 2014 // Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine after being hit by “a large number of high-energy objects,” the Dutch Safety Board said in findings that appear to point to a missile attack on the...
Communities at Risk in Wake of Failure to Address Rising Seas
Sep 8 2014 // Missions flown from the NASA base here have documented some of the most dramatic evidence of a warming planet over the past 20 years: the melting of polar ice, a force contributing to a global rise in ocean levels. The...
UK’s Altitude Targets Aerospace Growth with Hollingworth Appointment
Sep 4 2014 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, announced the appointment of former broker Charles Hollingworth as an underwriter. Hollingworth joined from Aon Risk Solutions where he was a...
UPDATE: Iceland Lowers Volcano Alert; Small Eruption No Threat to Aviation
Aug 29 2014 // Iceland reduced its aviation warning level to orange on Friday after concluding that a small eruption in the Bardarbunga volcano system that triggered a hours-long red alert actually posed no threat to aircraft. No sign of...
Iceland Puts Airlines on High Alert after Volcanic Eruption
Aug 29 2014 // Iceland put airlines on the highest level of alert after authorities detected an eruption north of the Bardarbunga volcano. The Icelandic Met Office raised the alert over the site to red and flights have been banned below...
Undersea Search for Missing Malaysian Airliner Refined
Aug 29 2014 // The massive undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended farther south based on new satellite analysis, only weeks before the multimillion dollar, yearlong sonar hunt...
Court Asked to Dimiss Spill Claims Against West Virginia Airport, Chemical Producer
Aug 25 2014 // An airport and a chemical producer want claims dismissed in a lawsuit partly targeting them over a January chemical spill. In U.S. District Court in Charleston, Yeager Airport filed a motion last week to dismiss claims in...
Iceland Monitors Tremors after Retracting Volcanic Eruption Warning
Aug 25 2014 // Iceland is monitoring rumbling at the Bardarbunga volcano for a second week after it yesterday retracted an announcement of an eruption and eased a warning to airlines over a possible ash plume. The national police moved...
Husband of Tennessee UPS Pilot Sues Honeywell Over Fatal Crash
Aug 19 2014 // The husband of a Tennessee pilot killed when a UPS cargo jet crashed in Alabama has filed suit against the company that made warning equipment used in the aircraft. Bret Tucker Fanning is seeking $2 million in his federal...
Iceland Raises Alert Level for Volcano Eruption to Second-Highest
Aug 19 2014 // Iceland’s Met Office on Monday raised its risk level to the aviation industry for an eruption at its Bardarbunga volcano to orange, which is the fourth level on a five-grade scale. Ash from the eruption of...
