Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pilot error a factor in Midway Airport crash
Jan 1 2006 // After deciding it was safe to land in a snowstorm, the pilots of Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overran the zone where the plane needed to touch down, losing hundreds of feet of runway that would have helped stop the jet...
Grant of Attorney Fees
Jan 1 2006 // Mercury Insurance Company v. Cooper (Fla. App., 3rd Dist., Nov. 23, 2005) A driver was injured in an accident when struck by a motor vehicle insured by Mercury. Mercury filed a declaratory judgment action against the...
Courts Rule Truck Insurer Must Pay for Damaged Airplane
Dec 29 2005 // Two Michigan courts have ruled that the insurer of a truck must pay $18,000 for damage caused to a small airplane that crashed after clipping the truck as the pilot tried to land in a grassy airfield. Cincinnati Insurance...
Best Assigns ‘A-‘ Rating to Allianz Marine & Aviation
Dec 23 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has assigned a financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” to Germany’s Allianz Marine & Aviation...
Midway Accident Prompts Questions About Short Runways
Dec 19 2005 // A New Federal Law Encourages Airports to Build Safety Zones or Extend Runways by 2015 A deadly accident in which a Boeing 737 slid off the end of a snowy Chicago runway on Dec. 8 brought renewed demands for buffer zones or...
Midway Accident Prompts Questions About Short Runways
Dec 18 2005 // A New Federal Law Encourages Airports to Build Safety Zones or Extend Runways by 2015 A deadly accident in which a Boeing 737 slid off the end of a snowy Chicago runway on Dec. 8 brought renewed demands for buffer zones or...
Pilot Error a Factor in Southwest Airlines Midway Airport Crash
Dec 16 2005 // After deciding it was safe to land in a snowstorm, the pilots of Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overran the zone where the plane needed to touch down, losing hundreds of feet of runway that would have helped stop the jet...
Hallmark Financial Services to Acquire Aerospace Holdings
Dec 14 2005 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Aerospace Holdings LLC. Aerospace, through various wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Aerospace Insurance Managers...
W.R. Berkley Launching Aviation Underwriting Facility
Dec 13 2005 // W. R. Berkley Corporation reported the formation of Berkley Aviation, LLC. Berkley Aviation will write aviation risks on behalf of W. R. Berkley Corporation’s insurance company subsidiaries. Berkley Aviation will...
Nigerian Jetliner Crash Claims More than 100 Lives in Port Harcourt
Dec 10 2005 // Officials in Nigeria reported Saturday that at least 103 people were killed when a passenger jet went down in stormy weather while attempting to land in the city of Port Harcourt. There were reports that less than a dozen...
Southwest 737 Slides Off Runway at Midway; 1 Fatality
Dec 8 2005 // A Southwest Airlines 737, which had been circling Chicago’s Midway Airport Thursday evening in an attempt to land during a snowstorm, slid off a runway and came to rest on a busy street. One fatality on the ground...
Best Downgrades Ratings on Allianz Marine & Fire (France)
Nov 30 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has downgraded the financial strength rating to “A-” (Excellent) from “A+” (Superior) of Allianz Marine & Aviation (France) (AMAF) and has removed the rating...
NW SMOKERS TO PAY A SURCHARGE:
Nov 7 2005 // Northwest Airlines plans to begin charging some of its workers who smoke an additional fee for health insurance, according to Knight-Ridder Newspapers. The Eagan, Minn.-based airline will be joining a small but growing...
What’s Wrong with an “Aging Workforce”?
Nov 6 2005 // Aging workforce” is a term often heard throughout corporate America. Most of us have read how, over the next decade, the 45-and-older crowd will grow to an unprecedented percentage of the working population. This...
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....
