Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Market Evolves for Drone Pilots Unwilling to Wait on Federal Regulations
Mar 6 2015 // Thousands of drones flown without government approval by real estate companies, movie studios and other businesses are getting coverage by insurers writing their own safety rules to fill a void left by regulators. One...
Willis Expert: Aviation Industry is Under-Prepared to Deal with Cyber Risks
Mar 6 2015 // The aviation industry is behind the curve in terms of its response and readiness to the insidious threat posed by cyber criminality whether from criminals, terrorists, nation states or hackers, according to Peter...
Unresolved Issues Following Deal With Asiana Passengers in San Francisco Crash
Mar 5 2015 // The first set of lawsuits stemming from the crash of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco two years ago have been settled, but dozens of additional cases remain after the accident that killed three Chinese teenagers...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires NationAir Aviation Insurance
Mar 4 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired NationAir Aviation Insurance (NationAir) based in West Chicago, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1978, NationAir is a retail insurance broker offering...
Asiana Settles Personal Injury Suits Over San Francisco Crash
Mar 4 2015 // Asiana Airlines Inc. settled 72 personal injury claims in lawsuits filed over a July 2013 crash landing at San Francisco International Airport and is continuing to negotiate with other passengers. The airline announced the...
Terrorists Have Shifted from Attacking Airlines to Mass Transit: Study
Mar 2 2015 // Successful terrorists have shifted their focus in recent years away from attacking airlines to attacking subway and rail systems, according to an analysis of terrorist attacks over a 30-year period from 1982 to 2011 by a...
Allied World Offers Product to Airbus’ Customers With Runway Safety System
Mar 2 2015 // Allied World Europe and Airbus have entered into a relationship whereby Allied World will offer complimentary aircraft hull insurance to airlines that purchase Airbus’ Runways Overrun Prevention System (ROPS). ROPS...
ACE Forms Travel Insurance Partnership with Transavia Airlines
Mar 2 2015 // ACE Group has signed a partnership agreement with Transavia to provide the airline’s customers with travel and flight cancellation insurance cover. Transavia, based in The Netherlands, is a member of the Air France...
2014 Insured Losses Hit Lowest Level in Five Years: Guy Carpenter
Feb 26 2015 // Insured losses in 2014 were at the lowest level seen since 2009, according to Guy Carpenter’s annual Global Catastrophe Review. The report says that significant insured losses in 2014 totaled approximately USD33...
U.S. Issues Draft Rules on Commercial Use of Drones; Insurers Welcome
Feb 16 2015 // The U.S. aviation regulator proposed rules on Sunday for commercial drone flights that would lift some restrictions but would still bar activities such as the delivery of packages and inspection of pipelines that have been...
Valuable Routes, Insurance Cover Insulate TransAsia From Grim Crash Record
Feb 5 2015 // Even after two deadly crashes in seven months, TransAsia Airways Corp. will likely rebound quickly as insurance covers any financial losses and its coveted routes through Taipei’s downtown airport keep it popular...
TransAsia Turboprop Crashes Near Taipei; 2nd Fatal Accident Within Year
Feb 4 2015 // A TransAsia Airways Corp. turboprop plane crashed into a river near Taipei moments after taking off, killing at least 19 of the 58 people on board in the second fatal accident in less than a year for the Taiwanese...
Malaysia Says U.N. Must Make Conflict Zone Air Risk Reporting Mandatory
Feb 3 2015 // Malaysia, which suffered two commercial air disasters last year after one jet disappeared and another was shot down over Ukraine, said on Monday the United Nations must make reporting of risks to airlines over conflict...
Update: Investigators Say No Evidence AirAsia Captain Left His Seat
Feb 2 2015 // Indonesian air crash investigators said on Monday they had not so far found evidence that the pilot of an AirAsia jet had left his seat, or that power to an automated control system was shut off, shortly before the...
AirAsia Captain Left Seat Before Jet Lost Control: Sources
Feb 2 2015 // The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unusual procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control, and by the time he returned it was too late to save the...
Pilots Disabled Critical Computers Just Before AirAsia Crash
Jan 30 2015 // The pilots of AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea, two people with knowledge of the...
AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
New Englanders Facing Snowy ‘Big Dig’ After Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // New Englanders savaged by a blizzard packing knee-high snowfall and hurricane-force winds began digging out Wednesday, grudgingly praising forecasters who got grief from New Yorkers and others spared its full fury. The...
AirAsia Plane Rose to Unauthorized Altitude Minutes before Crash
Jan 29 2015 // AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 climbed to an unauthorized altitude fast and steep before the aircraft fell into the ocean, Indonesian investigators said in their first description of the last moments of the ill-fated plane. From...
New York City Blizzard Proves Dud as Weather Forecasters Miss Mark
Jan 28 2015 // Reopen Broadway, start up the trains, get the commuters back on the road. The great New York City blizzard of ’15 was a bust. Not that there was no snow — Manhattan’s Central Park had 7.9 inches (20...
