Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Hurricanes Slow Aviation Premium Cuts, Report Says
Oct 14 2005 // The decline in airline insurance premium rates will slow during the October to December renewal season, despite a good industry safety record in 2005, according to the “Airline Insurance Market Review,” a new...
Hertz Doubles Size of Gulf Coast Fleet; More Vehicles on the Way
Oct 7 2005 // Hertz Corporation announced that it has doubled the size of its Gulf Coast fleet, with the addition of thousands of vehicles, to assist all customers, but especially individuals needing cars because their cars have been...
Converium Renews GAUM Funding
Sep 29 2005 // Swiss reinsurer Converium announced the completion of an aviation fronting arrangement with National Indemnity Company and Munich Re, which enters into effect on Oct. 1, 2005. The agreement ensures Converium’s...
AirSure Ltd., Aero Insurance Merge
Sep 28 2005 // Officials of two of the nation’s largest aviation insurance brokerage firms: AirSure Limited and Aero Insurance, a division of the Van Gilder Insurance Corporation, announced the completion of a definitive merger...
JetBlue Airliner Survives Emergency Landing at LAX; No Injuries Reported
Sep 21 2005 // As many people across the nation watched on television Wednesday evening, a JetBlue airliner, scheduled on a cross country flight with 139 passengers and six crew members, made a safe emergency landing just after 6 p.m....
International Newsbriefs
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
News Briefs
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
UPDATE: Indonesian Plane Crash; 147 Dead; 14 Survive; Cause Unknown
Sep 6 2005 // The plane crash yesterday in the city of Medan on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra has taken 147 lives, 47 on the ground. Remarkably 14 people survived when the Boeing 737-200, operated by low-cost airline Mandala, went...
Little Rock Airport Says It Won’t Appeal $2.1M Judgment
Sep 6 2005 // A judgment of more than $2.1 million against the Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, in a suit brought by the widow of an American Airlines pilot won’t be appealed, according to a lawyer for the...
August Plane Crashes Take Deadly Toll
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
August Plane Crashes Take Deadly Toll
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
Aon: 4 Airline Crashes Result in $180 Million Bill for Insurers
Aug 20 2005 // Aon Corp. reported on Friday that the four airline crashes that have hit Canada, Italy, Venezuela and Greece this month, have resulted in August being the worst month for airline losses in more than three years. According...
UPDATE: 160 Confirmed Dead in Venezuelan Air Crash
Aug 17 2005 // As the deadly series of plane crashes continued – 4 since Aug. 2 – rescue workers continued to comb the wreckage of the West Caribbean MD-82 that went down yesterday in Venezuela, near the Colombian border. All...
Coroner Says 5-Year-Old Boy Briefly Survived Greek Plane Crash; Died From Smoke Inhalation
Aug 17 2005 // At least one child on the doomed Cypriot Airline that crashed last Sunday in the mountains north of Athens, Greece survived the initial impact, but died shortly after from smoke inhalation. In all, 121 people died when the...
Venezuela Plane Crash Kills More than 150; Engine Trouble Reported
Aug 16 2005 // In the second major airline accident in just the last three days, officials reported Tuesday that all 153 passengers on a West Caribbean Airways flight from Panama to Martinique died when the plane went down in eastern...
Trusted Choice Campaign Hits the Airwaves Again
Aug 16 2005 // Trusted Choice, the consumer marketing brand for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, will again air television ads for a two week run next month, touting the benefits of using the...
Greece Airline Crash Kills 121; Firefighters Battle Brush Fires to Surrounding Areas
Aug 14 2005 // It appears all 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died Sunday when the plane rammed into a hill north of Athens, Greece. Early reports say one or both of the pilots may have been unconscious prior to the crash, perhaps...
Lockton Names Hopson New VP of Aviation Specialties
Aug 12 2005 // Lockton Companies Inc., the nation’s largest privately owned insurance broker, has appointed Robert Hopson as a vice president, aviation specialist in its commercial insurance group, property/casualty division in its...
Acordia Names Tooley VP – Aviation
Jul 21 2005 // Acordia Inc. announced it has named Charles (Charlie) Tooley as vice president – Aviation Practice. Based in Acordia’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office, Tooley will be focusing on the production of aviation-related...
