Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kisor Joins Willis Aerospace
Aug 11 2009 // Willis Aerospace, a division of Willis Group Holdings, has appointed Stephen Kisor to its global aviation team as executive vice president and head of the Willis Aviation office in Los Angeles. Kisor, who will be joining...
Investigators Still Search for Clues in NYC Air Crash
Aug 10 2009 // As investigators try to piece together how a small plane and tourist helicopter came to enter each other’s airspace over the Hudson River on a clear summer day, divers were to search for clues to the crash believed...
Apex Global Picks Stone to Lead Aviation Division in Houston
Aug 6 2009 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management services firm Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed John Stone as managing director of its Houston Aviation Operations. Stone, a pilot, is experienced in structuring insurance...
Marsh Issues Business Risk, Insurance Advice for Overseas Travelers
Jul 20 2009 // In the wake of the fatal bombings in Indonesia, PMarsh has issued a reminder to companies with employees who travel overseas of the need to have robust travel policies and emergency procedures in place to deal with crisis...
France Sees Global ‘Airline Blacklist’ Ready Soon
Jul 13 2009 // A global blacklist for unsafe airlines will be set up soon, France’s Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said on Monday. On Thursday the head of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had rejected...
Catlin Strengthens London Aviation Team
Jul 9 2009 // Catlin Group Limited has strengthened its already significant London aviation underwriting team with the addition of Richard Power and Mark Stanley. Power will join Catlin on August first as a senior underwriter and head...
Jackson’s Death and Event Cancellation; Max Cap Rejected; Still Searching Air France Crash Cause; Den Dekker is New FERM
Jul 6 2009 // Michael Jackson’s untimely death, barely two weeks before he was to begin a long awaited series of 50 concerts stretching over eight months, has been the world’s top story. It’s also a story in London,...
French Official Says No ‘Black Box’ Signals from Flight 447
Jun 24 2009 // A French official said sounds detected by search teams in the Atlantic depths are not those of Flight 447’s black boxes. The aide to France’s top transport official, Jean-Louis Borloo, said the “black...
Wife of New Jersey Musician Killed in Airline Crash Sues
Jun 22 2009 // The family of a jazz guitarist from New Jersey who was killed in the crash of a commuter plane near Buffalo, N.Y., in February has sued Continental Airlines and the flight’s operator. The lawsuit was filed Monday in...
Air France Preparing First Payment to Crash Victims’ Families
Jun 19 2009 // Air France will compensate the families of the victims of a June 1 crash in which 228 people died, the company’s chief executive said on Friday. Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic...
No Conclusions Yet in Air France Flight 447 Crash Probe
Jun 18 2009 // French investigators said Wednesday more than 400 pieces of Flight 447 have been recovered in a painstaking search in the Atlantic but no conclusions have yet been reached in the probe. “If we had concluded or...
Mystery Surrounds Air France Crash
Jun 15 2009 // Liability Claims to Come Could Exceed $1 Billion, Some Experts Predict The tragic disappearance of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic early on June 1 remains a mystery. The plane’s 216 passengers and 12 crew...
Air France to Replace Speed Sensors; Searchers Find More Bodies, Debris
Jun 10 2009 // Air France has said all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets will be equipped immediately with new speed sensors after last week’s disaster over the Atlantic, a pilots’ union said Tuesday. The pitot tubes...
AIG Picks Buyer for Aircraft Unit
Jun 8 2009 // American International Group Inc. has picked a group that includes private equity firms Onex Corp and Greenbriar Equity Group as the preferred bidder for its aircraft leasing unit, a source familiar with the situation said...
Air France Crash Site Found: 17 Bodies, Wreckage Recovered
Jun 8 2009 // Searchers found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet Sunday and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in the worst air disaster since 2001. Nearly a week after the...
Air France Jet Likely Broke Apart above Atlantic Ocean
Jun 5 2009 // The last manual message from the pilot of Air France Flight 447 indicated the plane was headed into a storm. Ten minutes later a flurry of automated messages began: The autopilot had disengaged; a key computer system had...
AIG Weighs Options In Sale of Aircraft Leasing Unit
Jun 4 2009 // American International Group Inc. is in talks to line up financing to facilitate the sale of its aircraft leasing unit, but it will consider options such as selling some aircraft if it fails to do so, a person familiar...
Air France Crash May Remain a Mystery Say Investigators
Jun 3 2009 // French officials said on Wednesday they might never discover why an Air France aircraft crashed into the Atlantic, killing 228 people, and that they might not even find the plane’s black boxes on the ocean...
High Seas Search Continues for Air France Plane with 228 Aboard
Jun 2 2009 // Search planes scoured the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a severe storm with 228 people on board. The Airbus A330 went missing on a...
UPDATE: Air France Rio-Paris Flight Missing over Atlantic after Storm
Jun 1 2009 // An Air France plane with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Brazil to Paris on Monday after hitting strong turbulence and French officials said they feared a disaster. The Brazilian air...
