Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has partnered with insurtech startup Flock to launch on-demand drone insurance in the UK market through a mobile app for commercial and recreational users. To be available in the UK market later this year, …
British officials announced plans Saturday [July 22] to further regulate drone use in a bid to prevent accidents and threats to commercial aviation. The new rules will require drones that weigh eight ounces (226.79 grams) or more to be registered …
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 Portuguese airports in June. Airlines have warned of …
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 air-traffic control system to manage its fleet as …
The number of laser attacks on aircraft is still “dangerously high,” although incidents are down slightly from 2015, said the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA). BALPA was commenting on data released this week from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), …
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was called off Tuesday after almost three years of fruitless toil. The Boeing Co. 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on …
Egyptian investigators found traces of explosives on victims of the crashed EgyptAir jet that went down over the Mediterranean seven months ago, in the clearest indication so far that terrorism may have caused the fatal incident. The findings have been …
Air-safety experts probing the jetliner crash that killed 71 people, including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer squad, will look at whether the plane ran out of fuel while on a flight close to the limits of its range. The distance …
An aircraft carrying 81 people, including players from the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, crashed on route to Colombia’s second-largest airport Monday, killing at least 75, according to local reports. The BAE Systems Plc RJ-85 plane chartered from Bolivia’s Lamia had …
Corporate pilots routinely take off without performing required safety checks, a study of thousands of flights by a trade group has found. Prompted by the 2014 crash of a corporate jet that killed billionaire Lewis Katz, which occurred after pilots …
