Latest Aviation Headlines
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AIG Could Gain Extra $2 Billion in Sale of Plane Leasing Unit
May 14 2014 // American International Group Inc. stands to get an extra $2 billion from the cash-and-stock sale of its plane-leasing unit after acquirer AerCap Holdings NV almost doubled in New York trading. AerCap has jumped since...
Court Exempts Airlines from Developer’s Sept. 11 Environmental Claim
May 7 2014 // American Airlines, United Airlines and the World Trade Center leaseholder do not have to pay a property developer environmental cleanup costs from the Sept. 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks, a U.S. appeals court ruled on...
Malaysia Jet Search Enters New Phase with Expanded Subsea Hunt
Apr 28 2014 // The hunt for a missing Malaysian passenger jet entered a new phase as an international team abandoned its aerial search for debris and stepped up efforts to find wreckage on the floor of the Indian Ocean. After 52 days,...
Delta Air Lines Settles Claim With Disabled Hawaii Man
Apr 23 2014 // A partially paralyzed Maui man who claimed airline workers forced him to crawl on and off flights in 2012 has settled his lawsuit against Delta Air Lines, his lawyer said Monday. Baraka Kanaan sued Delta last year after he...
Catlin Establishes General Aviation Consortium at Lloyd’s Asia
Apr 11 2014 // The Catlin Group Limited (CGL) announced from its Singapore, office the formation of the General Aviation Consortium at Lloyd’s Asia to write General Aviation insurance and reinsurance risks based in the Asia-Pacific...
California Legislator Calls for Investigation into Worker Safety At LAX
Apr 7 2014 // California state Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, has called for a state investigation into possibly unsafe working conditions at Los Angeles International Airport. Lieu’s call comes following the death three weeks ago of...
Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370
Apr 6 2014 // Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with the Malaysian jet’s disappearance armed with only minimal information on the fate of its 227...
McGriff, Seibels & Williams to Acquire Caledonian in Washington
Apr 2 2014 // McGriff, Seibels & Williams Inc. has acquired Caledonian Insurance Group Inc. of Mercer Island, near Seattle, Wash. The deal was completed April 1. Terms were not disclosed. Caledonian specializes in insurance...
Hunt for Missing Flight MH370 ‘Bedeviled by Regional Rivalries’
Mar 31 2014 // The search for flight MH370, the Malaysian jetliner that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships but been bedeviled by regional rivalries. While...
Lloyd’s ‘Stands Ready’ to Pay Claims from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
Mar 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, has said it stands ready to pay out claims arising from the presumed loss of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, even as searchers continue to scour the Indian...
Malaysia Jet Search Shifts, as New Lead Shows It Flew Shorter Distance
Mar 28 2014 // The three-week hunt for Malaysian Air Flight 370 focused on a new area in the Indian Ocean today after radar data indicated the plane probably flew a shorter distance than earlier estimated. The new lead was based on...
Snowpack In California, Colorado Being Measured by NASA
Mar 27 2014 // The snowpack atop mountain peaks in California and Colorado has a new set of eyes watching from high above to better gauge the amount of water that will rumble down rivers and streams each spring as runoff. In a new...
Complex Situation Occludes Details on Loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Mar 27 2014 // Very few details have been released by the re/insurance industry related to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which has caused some minor confusion as to the re/insurers providing coverage for claims. The...
U.S. Law Firm Seeks Records from Malaysian Airlines, Boeing
Mar 26 2014 // Malaysian Airlines and Boeing Co are facing a potential lawsuit over the Beijing-bound flight that disappeared more than two weeks ago with 239 people on board, according to a law firm representing passengers’...
32 Hurt as Train Derails, Climbs Escalator at Chicago Airport
Mar 25 2014 // An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at the underground station of one of the nation’s busiest airports early on March 24, injuring 32 people on board, officials...
Malaysia Jet’s Mystery Disappearance Leaves Liability Riddles
Mar 25 2014 // As the final hours of Malaysian Air Flight MH370 remain wrapped in mystery, the question of who bears full liability for the jet’s disappearance is also unresolved. This much is clear: Families of the 227 passengers...
Malaysia Jet Search Highlights Doubts over Air Traffic Radar
Mar 24 2014 // The ease with which a big jetliner melted into the ether after vanishing from Malaysian radar illustrates an uncomfortable paradox about modern aviation: state-of-the-art airplanes rely on ageing ground infrastructure to...
Analysis of Possible Plane Debris Slowed by Vast Size of Satellite Data
Mar 21 2014 // Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were due to the vast amounts of data that needed to be analyzed, Australian authorities and the U.S....
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’
Mar 20 2014 // The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas, but industry executives say implementing changes may be complex and costly. Mark...
California Legislator Calls For Investigation Into Worker Safety At LAX
Mar 14 2014 // California state Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, on Friday called for a state investigation into possibly unsafe working conditions at Los Angeles International Airport. Lieu’s call comes following the death three weeks...
