Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Altitude Risk Partners Appoints Audis as Senior Aviation Underwriter
Mar 7 2016 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, has expanded its general aviation capabilities with the appointment of Martin Audis as senior underwriter. Audis joins from Starr Aviation where...
California’s Porter Ranch Blowout Highlights Evacuation Risk
Mar 7 2016 // Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series on the oil and gas industry. The first article covered the important changes that occurred in 2015 and the significance of the Porter Ranch, Calif., blowout that...
Drone Flies Within 20 Feet of Air France Jet Above Paris; Investigation Under Way
Mar 4 2016 // A drone came within 5 meters (20 feet) of a potentially catastrophic collision with an Air France plane coming in to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, marking one of the closest encounters so far between one of the...
Part from Missing Malaysia Flight 370 Said to Have Been Found off Mozambique
Mar 2 2016 // Investigators probing the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are examining an object found on the coast of Mozambique they suspect came from the missing Boeing Co. 777, a person familiar with the...
Allianz Launches Workers’ Comp Unit for Aviation Risks
Mar 2 2016 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has entered into an agreement with the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) through which it has established a new aviation workers’ compensation department....
Marsh & McLennan Acquires Missouri-Based Aviation Solutions
Mar 1 2016 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, announced it has acquired Aviation Solutions LLC, an aviation risk advisor and insurance broker based in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Terms of...
Alaska Flight Company Ordered to Compensate Whistleblower Pilot
Feb 25 2016 // A federal agency has ordered an Alaska flight service company to compensate and rehire a pilot fired after reporting safety concerns four years ago. The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Climate Change’s No Justice, No Pancake, No Fly Zone
Feb 18 2016 // A conceivable diminishment in my pancake experience is what I’ll take away from the last two weeks of weird headlines tied to the topic of climate change. However, it was the rancor over the death of Supreme Court...
Law Enforcement, Private Firms Look to Evolving Drone Defense Industry for Protection
Feb 18 2016 // The drone intruder was roaming around the Rose Bowl Stadium as 94,000 fans cheered, oblivious to the threat. But scientists testing a new security device at the game knew: they detected its radio signals and seized control...
Global Aerospace Launches Online Aviation Insurance Platform
Feb 18 2016 // Global Aerospace, a provider of aerospace insurance, has launched Aeroinsure, an online aviation underwriting and policy management system. Through Aeroinsure, brokers can instantly access insurance products for their...
Chubb Global Markets Names Wadhams as Chief Underwriting Officer, Aviation
Feb 17 2016 // Chubb Global Markets, the London-based wholesale insurance division of Chubb, announced the promotion of John Wadhams, currently senior underwriter, Aviation, to the role of chief underwriting officer, Aviation, with...
FAA Open to Discussing Turning Over Air Traffic Safety to Nonprofit
Feb 16 2016 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing a House Republican plan to spin off the nation’s air- traffic control system to a nonprofit corporation and hasn’t rejected the idea. FAA Administrator...
Airplane Bomb Targeted Western Intelligence Officials: Al-Shabaab Statement
Feb 16 2016 // Al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Daallo Airlines airplane, saying in a statement the attack was part of an operation aimed at dozens of Western intelligence officials and Turkish NATO forces...
Registered Drones Now Outnumber Planes
Feb 10 2016 // The Federal Aviation Administration says there are now more registered drone operators in the U.S. than there are registered manned aircraft. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a legal forum that the agency passed the...
U.S. Again Warns Airlines Against Carrying Lithium Battery Cargo
Feb 10 2016 // U.S. aviation safety officials are raising new warnings about the dangers of carrying bulk shipments of lithium-based batteries on commercial flights. The Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the aviation...
Drones: Questions, Questions, and More Questions!
Feb 9 2016 // Insurance Services Office (ISO) recently released a “matched set” of drone-related endorsements for use with the commercial general liability (CGL) policy: three exclusionary endorsements and three...
Alliant Acquires Aviation Agency John F. Throne & Co. in Washington
Feb 3 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired John F. Throne & Co., a Seattle, Wash.-based aviation insurance agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. John F. Throne’s leadership, client services and business...
Lyft Makes Deal to Join Uber Serving Nevada Airport
Feb 1 2016 // Ridesharing company Lyft has locked in a deal to operate at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The Reno-Gazette Journal reported that Lyft obtained an agreement Friday to expand operations and will get to join Uber in doing...
Uber Will Ground Chopper Flights at Utah’s Sundance Film Festival
Jan 26 2016 // A Utah county reached an agreement over the weekend with ridesharing company Uber to stop operating helicopter flights at the Sundance Film Festival. Summit County said helicopter companies agreed to cease operating in...
Blizzard Heads Toward U.S. East; Airlines Cancel Flights
Jan 22 2016 // A dangerous winter storm will bring snow by the foot to the U.S. mid-Atlantic, including Washington, threatening at least 50 million people in its path while canceling thousands of flights and closing schools and...
