Latest Aviation Headlines
All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Safety Board Looking at Whistleblower Claims in 787 Battery Case
Jan 24 2013 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is looking at issues raised by more than one whistleblower as it investigates battery failures that have grounded the global fleet of 50 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners for a...
Swiss Re Announces Aviation, Agriculture Management Changes
Jan 24 2013 // Swiss Re announced that its reinsurance business unit is undertaking changes in its organizational set-up of special lines. “Agriculture and Aviation Reinsurance will be no longer under the same roof and will be...
Japanese Airlines Ground Boeing 787 Dreamliners after Emergency Landing
Jan 16 2013 // Japan’s two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns...
Oklahoma State Senator Criticizes Spending at Insurance Department
Jan 14 2013 // An Oklahoma state senator has announced his intention to file legislation to curb what he calls unnecessary expenditures at the state insurance department, as well as other state agencies. In announcement released by the...
Victims’ Relatives Sue Rivera’s Company Over Crash In California
Jan 14 2013 // Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera’s company alleging the singer was negligent when she hired a faulty Learjet 25. The civil...
Flood Walls for Subways: N.Y. Commission Urges Safeguards Against Future Storms
Jan 14 2013 // A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Sandy released a report Jan. 11 that calls for flood walls in subways, water pumps at airports and sea barriers along the coast. The final report was first...
Graeter Added as Aviation Broker at Arlington/Roe & Co.
Jan 14 2013 // Indianapolis, Ind.-based Arlington/Roe & Co. has hired Kate Graeter as national aviation insurance broker and marketer. Graeter has 16 years of insurance industry experience and formerly was aviation manager for a...
Aviation Risk Management Expert Joins Lockton in Kansas City
Jan 10 2013 // Ty Carter, an experienced aviation risk management executive and pilot has joined the Lockton Global Aviation Group in the insurance broker’s Kansas City office as producer. Carter will be responsible for advising...
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner No. 2 User of State-Owned Plane
Jan 8 2013 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has crisscrossed the state in state-owned aircraft on his mission to educate the public and reach out to constituents. As a result, Doak is the top statewide elected official using...
Tornadoes Strike in Texas
Dec 26 2012 // Christmas Day along the Gulf Coast was filled with severe thunderstorms that brought drenching rains, high winds and damaging tornadoes while the nation’s midsection dealt with freezing rain, sleet and snow that made...
Plane Crash-Lands on Myanmar Road, 3 Killed
Dec 26 2012 // A flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring 11, officials said. Four foreigners were among the injured on the Air Bagan flight, the...
IATA Reports World’s Airlines on Track for Safest Year
Dec 14 2012 // Global airlines are heading for the safest year on record with an average by the end of November of only one accident of any type for every 5.3 million flights, the international airline body IATA reported on Thursday. The...
AIG’s $4.8 Billion Sale of Aircraft Unit to Chinese Group Faces U.S. Security Review
Dec 10 2012 // American International Group Inc. is to sell nearly all of ILFC , the world’s second-largest airplane leasing business, to a Chinese consortium for up to $4.8 billion, giving the fastest growing aviation market...
UPDATE: Chinese Group to Buy AIG’s Plane Leasing Unit for up to $4.8 Billion
Dec 10 2012 // American International Group has agreed to sell nearly all of ILFC , the world’s second-largest airplane leasing business, to a Chinese consortium for up to $4.8 billion, giving the fastest growing aviation market...
Chinese Firms in Talks to Buy AIG Aircraft Leasing Unit
Dec 7 2012 // A group of Chinese companies, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), is in talks to buy American International Group’s aircraft leasing unit for around $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the...
French Court Clears Continental of Criminal Liability for 2000 Concorde Crash
Nov 30 2012 // Continental Airlines was cleared on Thursday of criminal responsibility for the Concorde crash in Paris in 2000 that killed 113 people, with a French court also absolving a mechanic at the U.S. airline of involuntary...
EU’s Debt Crisis Saps its Ability to Lead Climate Change Debate
Nov 26 2012 // The EU’s debt crisis has sapped its ability to lead the way in global climate talks, which began in Doha on Monday, and to build on a fragile victory it clinched a year ago. The European Union is one of the few...
United Airlines Not Liable for Alleged 9/11 Security Lapse: Judge
Nov 23 2012 // United Airlines bears no responsibility for suspected security lapses at a Maine airport, which allowed hijackers to board the American Airlines plane that crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11,...
AIR Worldwide’s Field Reports From R.I., Conn., and Long Island, N.Y.
Nov 16 2012 // In its ongoing damage survey of areas impacted by Superstorm Sandy, AIR Worldwide’s latest report describes the kinds of damage patterns caused by Sandy in coastal communities in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Long...
EU Fails to Fill Cash Gap as Climate Talks Loom
Nov 14 2012 // EU finance ministers have failed to deliver firm promises of cash to help poor nations deal with climate change, threatening progress at international talks to tackle global warming later this month. Talks on Tuesday in...
