Latest Aviation Headlines
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Portugal Accelerates Drone Law After 8 Close Encounters with Aircraft
Jul 17 2017 // Portugal is expediting a law that will introduce mandatory registration and insurance for drones weighing more than 250 grams (8.8 ounces). The measure follows eight near-misses between drones and commercial aircraft at...
California Commissioner Was Passenger on Jet That Nearly Landed on Taxiway
Jul 14 2017 // A top California state official said he was a passenger on an Air Canada jet that nearly landed on a taxiway where four other planes were sitting rather than the designated runway at San Francisco International Airport...
FCC Expands Bandwith for Radar Used in Collision Avoidance Systems
Jul 14 2017 // The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved allocating a larger consolidated block of spectrum for use by motor vehicle and aircraft radar systems to help avoid crashes. The FCC first approved 1 GHz of...
Truck Speeding Fix Among Safety Rules Halted by Trump Anti-Regulation Order
Jul 7 2017 // Years of pleas from parents whose son was killed by a speeding tractor-trailer, buy-in from some truckers and the promise of fewer highway deaths convinced U.S. officials in September to propose requiring speed-limiting...
Tropical Storm Cindy Bears Down on Gulf Coast
Jun 22 2017 // Tropical Storm Cindy churned slowly on Wednesday across the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landing on the Texas-Louisiana border, after claiming the life of a vacationing child and threatening to bring flash floods from...
Drone Delivery Fleets Counting on Hyperlocal Weather Forecasts
Jun 22 2017 // Imagine a weather report so precise it provides wind-gust forecasts for individual city blocks. Such micro-weather data may soon become a reality—and a necessity for future fleets of delivery drones. As Amazon.com Inc.,...
JLT Specialty Makes Leadership Changes at North America Aerospace Practice
Jun 20 2017 // Global specialty broker and risk advisor JLT Specialty USA has made several leadership appointments in its Aerospace practice in North America. The appointments include elevating Phil Gingell, who most recently served as...
Doughnut Delivery Drone Takes Flight in Colorado
Jun 19 2017 // Doughnuts were delivered earlier this month by drone to Denver’s mayor and the city’s police and fire departments in an event that provided a glimpse into what companies hope will be a quick, inexpensive way to...
China Fines Emirates Airline for Unsafe Operations
Jun 15 2017 // China’s civil aviation authority has fined the world’s largest long-haul carrier, Dubai-based Emirates, and barred it from adding new destinations and aircraft in China for six months, following two incidents...
Hamptons Tainted Water Lawsuit Adds to Roster of 3M Complaints
Jun 14 2017 // A stone’s throw from the white sand beaches and posh mansions of one of America’s wealthiest ZIP codes sits a community that homeowners say has been poisoned by polluted drinking water. Fifteen people in a...
Why Insurance Lawyer Grounded FAA’s Drone Registry
Jun 7 2017 // John Taylor didn’t like the idea of being forced by the Federal Aviation Administration to register his drones. The requirement was “authoritarian,” the Maryland attorney said, and wouldn’t deter...
Travelers’ Drone Program Is Shaping the Way Claims Reps Do Business
Jun 5 2017 // Travelers’ Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use of drones to assist in property inspection and claims analysis. The nearly...
Doughnut Delivery Drone Takes Flight in Colorado
Jun 2 2017 // Doughnuts were delivered this week by drone to Denver’s mayor and the city’s police and fire departments in an event that provided a glimpse into what companies hope will be a quick, inexpensive way to get...
Marsh Launches Non-Payment Insurance for Boeing Aircraft Financing
Jun 2 2017 // Marsh has launched the Aircraft Finance Insurance Consortium (AFIC), a non-payment insurance product designed for banks and capital market investors that are funding new aircraft purchases from Boeing. Available...
BA’s Massive IT Failure Caused by Power Surge; Brand Damage Admitted
May 31 2017 // A huge IT failure that stranded 75,000 British Airways passengers followed damage to servers that were overwhelmed when the power returned after an outage, the airline said on Wednesday. BA, part of airline group IAG, is...
AGCS Promotes Hansen as Head of Aviation, Succeeding Haagen
May 26 2017 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) announced that Mike Hansen has been named global head of Aviation. He takes over this responsibility from Henning Haagen who was appointed Northeast Zone Executive for North...
Amazon’s Delivery Drone Project Focuses on Birds (and How to Avoid Them)
May 22 2017 // Amazon.com Inc.’s development of package-delivery drones is progressing to the point where the company is now thinking a lot about geese. The e-commerce company said Thursday it has started development of an...
U.S. Court Voids Recreational Drone User Registry
May 22 2017 // The government’s authority to oversee burgeoning recreational drone use was dealt a setback when a federal appeals court barred the Federal Aviation Administration from forcing hobbyists to register the millions of...
JLT Re Appoints Lockton’s Barden and Warner to Aviation Team
May 17 2017 // JLT Re, the London-based reinsurance broker and consultant, has appointed Graham Barden and Jon Warner as partners in its aviation team. Barden has over 40 years of experience in the aviation market having worked in both...
The Wedge: The Scientific Selling Power of Yes, No and Maybe
May 15 2017 // My dad was a fighter pilot. He flew a P-47 Thunderbolt, one of the heaviest fighter planes ever built. The aircraft was equipped with eight 0.50-calibre machine guns, four per wing, which were an absolutely devastating...
