Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
International Newsbriefs
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
News Briefs
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
UPDATE: Indonesian Plane Crash; 147 Dead; 14 Survive; Cause Unknown
Sep 6 2005 // The plane crash yesterday in the city of Medan on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra has taken 147 lives, 47 on the ground. Remarkably 14 people survived when the Boeing 737-200, operated by low-cost airline Mandala, went...
Little Rock Airport Says It Won’t Appeal $2.1M Judgment
Sep 6 2005 // A judgment of more than $2.1 million against the Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, in a suit brought by the widow of an American Airlines pilot won’t be appealed, according to a lawyer for the...
August Plane Crashes Take Deadly Toll
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
August Plane Crashes Take Deadly Toll
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
Aon: 4 Airline Crashes Result in $180 Million Bill for Insurers
Aug 20 2005 // Aon Corp. reported on Friday that the four airline crashes that have hit Canada, Italy, Venezuela and Greece this month, have resulted in August being the worst month for airline losses in more than three years. According...
UPDATE: 160 Confirmed Dead in Venezuelan Air Crash
Aug 17 2005 // As the deadly series of plane crashes continued – 4 since Aug. 2 – rescue workers continued to comb the wreckage of the West Caribbean MD-82 that went down yesterday in Venezuela, near the Colombian border. All...
Coroner Says 5-Year-Old Boy Briefly Survived Greek Plane Crash; Died From Smoke Inhalation
Aug 17 2005 // At least one child on the doomed Cypriot Airline that crashed last Sunday in the mountains north of Athens, Greece survived the initial impact, but died shortly after from smoke inhalation. In all, 121 people died when the...
