Latest Aviation Headlines
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Japanese Flying Car Takes Flight – For About a Minute
Aug 6 2019 // It was caged and only hovered for about a minute, but it flew: a new flying car. Made by NEC Corp., the vehicle is essentially a large drone with four propellers that’s capable of carrying people. The Japanese...
Tarling Joins Marsh in Chicago as Senior Aviation Adviser
Aug 6 2019 // Global insurance broker and risk adviser, Marsh, has appointed Michael Tarling as senior adviser in the Aviation Practice of Marsh JLT Specialty. He is based in Chicago. In this newly created role, Tarling will deliver...
Power Outage Grounded Flights at Southern California Airport
Aug 5 2019 // A Southern California airport cancelled all flights after a power outage left all its terminals in the dark. John Wayne Airport in Orange County diverted all arriving flights and cancelled departing flights after the...
Hong Kong Protestors Move to Shut Down Financial Hub with General Strike
Aug 5 2019 // Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned of a “very dangerous situation” as protesters moved to shut down the Asian financial hub with a general strike on Monday after a ninth straight weekend of unrest in opposition...
First Drone Flight ‘Beyond Line of Sight’ Completed, Says FAA
Aug 5 2019 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it had approved the first drone flight beyond the operator’s sight line, a major advance for retailers like Amazon.com Inc. seeking to speed up deliveries by...
Senators Question Federal Oversight of Boeing, Certification Deferrals to Manufacturers
Aug 1 2019 // A group of U.S. senators on Wednesday questioned the Federal Aviation Administration oversight of Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX as the agency defended the longstanding practice of deferring much of the process of certifying...
Swiss Re H1 Profit Hit by Ethiopian Airlines Crash, Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX
Jul 31 2019 // Swiss Re’s first-half net profit fell 5.3%, as claims relating to the Ethiopian Airlines crash and the subsequent grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX, plus natural catastrophes took their toll. The world’s...
Tornado, Flood Repairs to Missouri Facilities Could Cost Almost $13M
Jul 29 2019 // Repairs to Missouri government facilities damaged by recent tornadoes and flooding could cost almost $13 million, a majority of which would go toward fixing a historic prison that state officials are still trying to decide...
Cellphones Still a Flight Danger on Some Boeing Jets
Jul 18 2019 // U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger mobile phones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. More than 1,300 jets...
Boeing Creates $50M Crash Victims’ Fund; Hires Feinberg to Oversee
Jul 18 2019 // Boeing Co. said on Wednesday it will dedicate half of a $100 million fund it created after two crashes of its 737 MAX planes to provide payments to families of those killed, with veteran U.S. compensation expert Ken...
FAA Hit for New Delay in Remote Drone Tracking Program
Jul 18 2019 // The Federal Aviation Administration has again delayed plans to propose new rules requiring the remote identification of drones, according to records and a member of Congress on Wednesday. Congress directed the FAA in 2016...
Alphabet Has High Hopes for Its Drone Traffic Control App OpenSky
Jul 16 2019 // The company that brought you free digital maps and email wants to do the same thing for your drone. Wing LLC, an offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, on Tuesday unveiled a new app it calls OpenSky that it hopes will...
SkyWatch.AI Launches On-Demand Drone Insurance in UK, Underwritten by Chaucer
Jul 15 2019 // SkyWatch.AI, the on-demand, telematics-based insurance platform, has launched in the United Kingdom following last year’s launch in the United States. SkyWatch.AI’s UK policies will be underwritten by specialty...
NTSB: 2 Skydivers Joined Doomed Hawaii Flight at Last Minute
Jul 11 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board says two skydivers made a last-minute decision to board the Hawaii plane that crashed and killed 11 people last month. The NTSB’s preliminary report gave no cause for the...
15 Families of Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Reject Boeing’s Cash Offer
Jul 9 2019 // Fifteen Kenyan families of people killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia in March have rejected a proposal by Boeing to compensate them, saying they will pursue their claims in court. “So far our clients have rejected...
Boeing Offers $100 Million, Beyond Lawsuits, to 737 Max Crash Victims
Jul 7 2019 // JULY 3, 2019 — Boeing Co. is offering $100 million to support the families of victims and others affected by two crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, which killed 346 people and have led to scores of lawsuits. The money will...
Update: Voice Recorder Found in Texas Plane Crash; Victims Identified
Jul 3 2019 // Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport. Two crew members and eight passengers died...
Discovery of New Risk with Boeing 737 to Prolong Grounding
Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has identified a new risk that Boeing Co. must address on its 737 MAX before the grounded jet can return to service, the agency said on Wednesday. The risk was discovered during a...
Feds Probing Repairs Made on Plane in Hawaii Crash
Jun 25 2019 // Federal investigators will review repair and inspection records on the skydiving plane that became inverted before crashing shortly after takeoff on Oahu’s North Shore, killing all 11 people on board in the deadliest...
Hudson River Pilot ‘Sully’ Urges More 737 Training, Aircraft Certification Reform
Jun 20 2019 // Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who in 2009 landed a US Airways flight safely on the Hudson River in New York, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that pilots of the now-grounded Boeing 737 MAX should get new...
