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Snowpack In California, Colorado Being Measured by NASA
Mar 27 2014 // The snowpack atop mountain peaks in California and Colorado has a new set of eyes watching from high above to better gauge the amount of water that will rumble down rivers and streams each spring as runoff. In a new...
Complex Situation Occludes Details on Loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Mar 27 2014 // Very few details have been released by the re/insurance industry related to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which has caused some minor confusion as to the re/insurers providing coverage for claims. The...
U.S. Law Firm Seeks Records from Malaysian Airlines, Boeing
Mar 26 2014 // Malaysian Airlines and Boeing Co are facing a potential lawsuit over the Beijing-bound flight that disappeared more than two weeks ago with 239 people on board, according to a law firm representing passengers’...
32 Hurt as Train Derails, Climbs Escalator at Chicago Airport
Mar 25 2014 // An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at the underground station of one of the nation’s busiest airports early on March 24, injuring 32 people on board, officials...
Malaysia Jet’s Mystery Disappearance Leaves Liability Riddles
Mar 25 2014 // As the final hours of Malaysian Air Flight MH370 remain wrapped in mystery, the question of who bears full liability for the jet’s disappearance is also unresolved. This much is clear: Families of the 227 passengers...
Malaysia Jet Search Highlights Doubts over Air Traffic Radar
Mar 24 2014 // The ease with which a big jetliner melted into the ether after vanishing from Malaysian radar illustrates an uncomfortable paradox about modern aviation: state-of-the-art airplanes rely on ageing ground infrastructure to...
Analysis of Possible Plane Debris Slowed by Vast Size of Satellite Data
Mar 21 2014 // Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were due to the vast amounts of data that needed to be analyzed, Australian authorities and the U.S....
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’
Mar 20 2014 // The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas, but industry executives say implementing changes may be complex and costly. Mark...
California Legislator Calls For Investigation Into Worker Safety At LAX
Mar 14 2014 // California state Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, on Friday called for a state investigation into possibly unsafe working conditions at Los Angeles International Airport. Lieu’s call comes following the death three weeks...
777 Mystery Sharpens Hunt for ‘Black-box’ Alternatives: Aviation Expert
Mar 14 2014 // The search for the missing Malaysian jet could speed development of new ways of locating wreckage, but such technology is unlikely to replace the traditional “black box” any time soon, France’s top crash...
Investigators Focus on ‘Deliberate Diversion’ of Missing Plane – Sources
Mar 14 2014 // An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion the flight was deliberately diverted, as evidence suggests it was last headed out over the Andaman Islands, sources...
Freescale Employees Missing on Malaysia Jet Poses Travel Policy Questions
Mar 12 2014 // The loss of 20 key Freescale Semiconductor employees in the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner on Saturday raises questions about whether the company should have allowed so many of them to board the same plane, but...
Confusion as Search for Missing Malaysian Jetliner Spreads across SE Asia
Mar 12 2014 // The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded on Wednesday to cover a swathe of Southeast Asia, from the South China Sea to India’s territorial waters, with authorities no closer to explaining what...
North Carolina Report Outlines Government Use of Drones
Mar 11 2014 // State and local governments in North Carolina could use unmanned aircraft for law enforcement, hurricane recovery and monitoring wildlife, a new state report suggests. While the report issued by State Chief Information...
Malaysian Military Tracked Missing Jetliner Turn to Strait of Malacca
Mar 11 2014 // Malaysia’s military believes it tracked a missing jetliner by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a military...
Rescuers Scour Sea for Malaysian Airliner Lost in ‘Unprecedented Mystery’
Mar 10 2014 // The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an “unprecedented aviation mystery”, a senior official said on Monday, with a massive air and sea search now in its third day failing to find any confirmed trace of...
Judge’s Refusal to Fine Drone Operator Seen Spur to More Commercial Flying
Mar 10 2014 // A judge overturned a U.S. regulator’s first fine against a drone operator, a ruling that may lead to more commercial unmanned-aircraft flights in the U.S. before rules are written to govern their use. Judge Patrick...
The Future of Drones in the Insurance Industry
Mar 7 2014 // After a catastrophe hits, mobile units filled with adjusters are on site to evaluate property damage. Flash forward five years and an insured may never meet the property adjuster handling his or her claim. Instead, a drone...
Louisiana Runway Extension to Increase Traffic, Satisfy Insurance Requirements
Mar 6 2014 // On any given day, Louisiana Regional Airport just outside the city limits of Gonzales will have an average of 600 takeoffs and landings of small aircraft. The Advocate reports those numbers are likely to increase this...
Willis Transport Head Sees Huge Potential in Asian Aerospace, Engineering
Mar 5 2014 // Alastair Swift, Global Head of Transportation for Willis Group Holdings, pointed out that Asia continues to benefit from a period of staggering economic growth and seismic demographic shifts. As a result the region could...
