Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FAA Ruling Grounds AirPooler’s Uber-Style Sharing in Air Travel
Aug 15 2014 // The trend in sharing services popularized by Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. will take longer to gain a foothold in the world of aviation, if at all. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reviewed its rules and...
Iranian Passenger Plane Crashes Killing 48
Aug 11 2014 // An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from an airport near the capital, Tehran, killing 48 people onboard, state media reported. The aircraft, an Iran-140 typically used for short domestic flights,...
Hawaii Spared Hurricane As Iselle Weakens to Tropical Storm
Aug 8 2014 // Hawaii escaped its first hurricane strike in 22 years as Iselle was downgraded to a tropical storm just before making landfall at the Big Island. Iselle, bearing winds of 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour, was 80 miles...
Dutch firm Fugro to Lead Australian Subsea Search for Malaysia Airlines Jet
Aug 7 2014 // Dutch oil industry services firm Fugro is to lead Australia’s search of the Indian Ocean seafloor where missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to lie, hoping to solve the mystery of its disappearance five...
New York Lawmakers Push for Airline Safety Devices
Jul 29 2014 // Two U.S. legislators urged the government to study whether American passenger jets should be equipped with devices protecting them against missiles like the one that brought down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine and...
UPDATE: Bad Weather Likely Cause of Air Algerie Crash – French Officials
Jul 25 2014 // Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight over the West African state of Mali with 116 people on board, French officials said on Friday. Investigators at the scene of the crash had...
Air Crashes Set 2014 on Course to Be Deadliest Since 2005
Jul 25 2014 // Three fatal airline crashes in a week mean 2014 is shaping up to become the worst year in almost a decade for passenger fatalities. The crash of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft on the fringes of the Sahara desert...
AIG Identified As Lead Insurer in Taiwan Plane Crash
Jul 24 2014 // American International Group Inc. is the lead insurer of the TransAsia Airways Corp. passenger plane that crashed near Taiwan’s Magong airport, according to Aon Plc, a broker that tracks the market for aviation...
Airline War Risk Insurance Expected to Rise Due to Global Conflicts
Jul 24 2014 // Insurers are expected to hike war risk premiums for airlines following losses due to global conflicts, including the downing of a Malaysia airplane over Ukraine, insurance rating agency A.M. Best Company said on...
Best Comments on Insurance Implications of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 Crash
Jul 24 2014 // A.M. Best has released a preliminary report, which indicates that the “total insurance loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17, which crashed over the Ukraine-Russia border on July 17, 2014, is not expected to result...
TransAsia Air Crash off Taiwan Leaves 48 Dead, 10 Injured
Jul 24 2014 // Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after a TransAsia Airways Corp. passenger plane crashed as it prepared to land on Taiwan’s outlying Penghu Islands. Flight GE222, a twin-engine ATR-72 turboprop, was making...
Cause of Blaze at North Dakota Oil Supply Company Unknown
Jul 23 2014 // More than half a day after an industrial fire broke out in the North Dakota oil patch town of Williston, N.D., authorities still were unable to say what caused the massive blaze. The fire, which started around midnight...
Singapore Tells Airlines to Review Conflict Zone’s Risk Assessments
Jul 23 2014 // Singapore’s civil aviation authority has asked airlines based in the city-state to review their risk assessment of conflict zones following the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine last...
Airlines Shocked by Jet Attack; Ask Why No-Fly Zones Are So Rare
Jul 22 2014 // A universal no-fly area declared in eastern Ukraine after the downing of Malaysian Air Flight 17 is a rare restriction currently shared only with North Korea, prompting airlines including Deutsche Lufthansa AG to question...
Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash Insurance May Pose Quandary
Jul 18 2014 // Insurance on the Malaysian airliner brought down over Ukraine on Thursday is likely to pay out relatively quickly, provided that the cause of the crash is firmly determined, but observers say the loss of of 295 lives...
Allianz Is Lead Reinsurer of $97.3 Million in Ukraine Plane Crash
Jul 18 2014 // Allianz SE is the lead hull and liability reinsurer on a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that was shot down over eastern Ukraine. The aircraft’s value is about $97.3 million, London-based insurance broker Aon Plc,...
Wyoming Sponsor Of Earhart Search Wants Suit To Continue
Jul 14 2014 // A Wyoming man who paid $1 million to sponsor a search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane is asking a federal judge not to dismiss his fraud lawsuit against expedition organizers. Tim Mellon maintains that the...
Export-Import Bank Could Be Reformed Rather Than Closed
Jul 2 2014 // The U.S. Export-Import Bank, derided by conservative critics as an expensive boondoggle, may win a reprieve from what looked like almost certain death in Congress if enough Republicans can be persuaded to let it live on,...
Lawsuit Blames West Virginia Airport for Role in Chemical Spill
Jun 26 2014 // A federal lawsuit blames a Charleston airport runway project for the January chemical spill that left 300,000 residents without clean water for days. The lawsuit says Yeager Airport’s completed runway extension never...
Hong Kong Could Hold Employers Liable for Harassment by Passengers
Jun 25 2014 // A Hong Kong legislator backing a bill to help protect flight attendants from sexual harassment by passengers will seek to add language making employers liable for enforcing it. “Without that liability, the law will...
