Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Venezuela Plane Crash Kills More than 150; Engine Trouble Reported
Aug 16 2005 // In the second major airline accident in just the last three days, officials reported Tuesday that all 153 passengers on a West Caribbean Airways flight from Panama to Martinique died when the plane went down in eastern...
Trusted Choice Campaign Hits the Airwaves Again
Aug 16 2005 // Trusted Choice, the consumer marketing brand for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, will again air television ads for a two week run next month, touting the benefits of using the...
Greece Airline Crash Kills 121; Firefighters Battle Brush Fires to Surrounding Areas
Aug 14 2005 // It appears all 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died Sunday when the plane rammed into a hill north of Athens, Greece. Early reports say one or both of the pilots may have been unconscious prior to the crash, perhaps...
Lockton Names Hopson New VP of Aviation Specialties
Aug 12 2005 // Lockton Companies Inc., the nation’s largest privately owned insurance broker, has appointed Robert Hopson as a vice president, aviation specialist in its commercial insurance group, property/casualty division in its...
Acordia Names Tooley VP – Aviation
Jul 21 2005 // Acordia Inc. announced it has named Charles (Charlie) Tooley as vice president – Aviation Practice. Based in Acordia’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office, Tooley will be focusing on the production of aviation-related...
ASUR Reports Small Impact from Hurricane Emily
Jul 19 2005 // Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste S.A. de C.V. (ASUR) announced that its Cancun, Cozumel, and Merida airports were temporarily closed as a safety precaution in anticipation of Hurricane Emily. The three airports have since...
Insurer Resists Payment in Mont. Aviation Crash
Jul 18 2005 // The sole survivor of a 2004 plane crash that killed three men is demanding the aircraft’s insurer cover more than $46,000 in unpaid medical bills, but the insurance company is resisting. AIG Aviation Inc., the...
News Briefs
Jun 6 2005 // ARKANSAS Pre-License CE Requirements Modified The Arkansas Insurance Department announced that a portion of the Arkansas Insurance Code ad-dressing education hours for applicants for Arkansas insurance agent, broker or...
Top Flight Now in Permanent Receivership in Okla.
May 27 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that Top Flight Insurance Company, an auto insurance carrier, has been placed into permanent receivership. The company previously was placed in temporary receivership...
Commissioner Holland Places Top Flight into Receivership in Okla.
May 13 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that she has filed an application with the Oklahoma County District Court to be appointed receiver for Top Flight Insurance Company, an auto insurance carrier. The...
Airbus A380 Takes to the Air
Apr 28 2005 // The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane ever built, successfully took to the air in cloudless skies over the Southern French City of Toulouse yesterday, April 27, 2005. Pilots, engineers and ground crews reported...
Oeckl Rejoins GE Insurance Solutions
Apr 21 2005 // GE Insurance Solutions announced that Hubert Oeckl has been appointed to lead the reinsurer’s Aviation Excess of Loss Treaty team. The appointment comes as part of the group’s efforts to better serve customers...
N.Y. Court Denies Workers’ Compensation Survivor Benefits for Same-Sex Partner
Mar 23 2005 // A New York man who sought workers’ compensation benefits after his same-sex partner of more than 20 years was killed in an airplane crash has been denied his claim. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the...
Serving the Friendly Skies
Mar 21 2005 // When the 1970s began, Bill Moloney was afraid of flying. When the 21st century dawned, he had his own aviation brokerage based in an airport and flew his plane as often as he could. Moloney, a self-described...
Paris Airport Roof Structure to be Replaced
Mar 18 2005 // Aeroports de Paris (ADP), the authority that owns and operates both the Charles de Gaulle airport and Orly airport in the French capital, has determined that the entire roof structure of Terminal 2E must be torn down and...
INSURERS TO PAY $5.9M FOR LOST SOCAL AIRPORT REVENUE:
Feb 21 2005 // Officials with the city of Los Angeles announced that they reached a $5.9 million settlement with their insurers due to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to the Associated Press. The Federal Aviation...
Trusted Choice Back on the Tube in March
Feb 17 2005 // Trusted Choice advertising will return to a television set near you next month when a two-week, nationwide ad flight airs, according to Ronald Smith, chairman of the consumer branding program’s Board of...
Report Cites Design and Structural Faults as Cause of Paris Airport Collapse
Feb 16 2005 // Both structural and design faults caused a large section of the newly constructed Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport to collapse last May, killing 4 people and injuring 3. An investigative commission...
AIG Aviation Grows Specialty Workers’ Comp Program; Risks for Fixed Base Operators Covered
Feb 8 2005 // AIG Aviation Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), is expanding its Specialty Workers’ Compensation offering to cover the risks associated with Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) at private,...
One Dead Hedgehog + One Flock of Seagulls + One Airbus =’s $4.1 Million
Feb 2 2005 // Five insurance companies are set to recover 2.3 million euros ($3 million) from the French government, while Air France will collect 850,000 euros ($1.1 million) as the result of a court ruling in Marseille stemming from...
