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NTSB: Plane Topped Limits In 2011 Reno Race Crash
Aug 28 2012 // A highly modified vintage aircraft was pushed beyond its structural limits before it crashed into spectators at last year’s National Championship Air Races in Reno, according to the findings being presented to the...
Southwest Pays Refunds After Computer Glitch
Aug 7 2012 // Southwest Airlines said Sunday it has begun filing refunds to customers who were accidentally billed multiple times for a single flight, after a half-price online ticket promotion backfired. The special sale designed to...
Violent Storms Kill 2, Leave Thousands Without Power in Mid-Atlantic, Midwest
Jul 27 2012 // Violent thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic regions of the eastern United States late on Thursday, killing two people and cutting power to more than 130,000 homes and businesses in New York,...
Japan’s All Nippon Airways Grounds Dreamliners, Citing Engine Corrosion Risk
Jul 24 2012 // Japan’s All Nippon Airways said on Monday it grounded part of its fleet of 787 Dreamliners after tests revealed a risk of engine corrosion, but Boeing Co, the aircraft’s manufacturer, said it does not expect...
Air Company Blames Controllers For Montana Crash
Jul 19 2012 // A federal judge in Utah is asking the Montana Supreme Court to help decide if an air ambulance company can blame air traffic controllers for a deadly crash outside Bozeman in 2007. Because Metro Aviation Inc. settled with...
Guy Carp’s July 1 Renewals Report: ‘Plentiful Capacity;” Low Insured Losses
Jul 10 2012 // According to a report from Guy Carpenter the July first reinsurance renewals “took place against a backdrop of plentiful capacity,” as capital “has continued to strengthen through the second quarter of...
AMR Sues Retired Workers Over Health Benefits
Jul 9 2012 // Dallas-based American Airlines and its parent company are suing to stop providing health care and life insurance benefits to current retirees. AMR Corp. and American filed the lawsuit on July 6 as part of their bankruptcy...
Equipment Failure, Training, Inspection Flaws at Fault for Rio-Paris Crash
Jul 6 2012 // Pilot error, defective sensors, inadequate training and insufficient oversight combined to send an Air France passenger plane plunging into the south Atlantic in 2009 in the airline’s worst disaster, French...
Catlin Names Huebel CEO of Canadian Unit, Other Executive Changes
Jun 28 2012 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited announced that David Huebel will take over as CEO of Catlin Canada, effective July 3. Catlin Canada is the Group’s Canadian underwriting hub, headquartered in Toronto with...
Meteorite Report Grounds Colo. Firefighting Planes
Jun 22 2012 // Authorities say reports of a possible meteorite or meteor shower briefly grounded firefighting aircraft battling a central Colorado wildfire. Meteorologist Scott Entrekin of the National Weather Service says emergency...
Boeing Lauds Tornado Recovery by Key Kansas Supplier
Jun 20 2012 // Top Boeing Co. executives were in Wichita, Kan., on June 18 to celebrate tornado recovery efforts by parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems, telling thousands of cheering employees that the event forged a stronger bond between...
New Reno Air Course Debuts, Organizers Get $1.7M Insurance Hike
Jun 18 2012 // Pilots offered praise for a new course designed to keep them farther away from spectators at the Reno National Championship Air Races after last year’s accident that killed 11 people. Pilots who flew the course for...
JetBlue Fliers File Suit in New York Over Pilot Scare
Jun 14 2012 // Ten passengers are suing JetBlue over a flight during which a pilot had to be physically restrained after screaming about religion and terrorism. They claim the airline was “grossly negligent” in allowing him...
Reno Air Races Plans To Change Course This Fall
May 24 2012 // Organizers of the national air racing championships secured $100 million in necessary insurance and announced plans Tuesday to change the September race course for the fastest planes to keep them farther from spectators...
Reno Air Race Organizers Get OK To Continue Event
May 21 2012 // Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races cleared a major hurdle in their bid to continue the annual event this fall, winning approval of a special one-year permit and moving closer to securing the necessary...
Cost of Liability Insurance Leads to Closing of Small Iowa Airport
May 14 2012 // The grass-strip McBride Airport has closed nearly 50 years after it was carved out of an eastern Iowa farm field. Ivan McBride told The Gazette it’s difficult to close the tiny airport in Marion that his late father...
Wreckage of Russian Sukhoi Plane Strewn on Indonesian Mountain
May 10 2012 // The wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi aircraft with about 50 people on board was found on Thursday strewn on a steep ridge on a mountain south of the Indonesian capital where it crashed during a demonstration flight. There were...
Federal Aviation Safety Regulators Ignore Whistleblowers: Watchdog
May 10 2012 // The Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly dragged its feet in responding to whistleblower complaints about safety problems and stronger oversight of air safety is needed, a government watchdog said. Special...
EU Countries ‘Dithering’ over Climate Change Fund
May 7 2012 // EU nations are dithering over how to fill a multi-billion-euro fund to help tackle climate change, just as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. The...
Willis Review Sees Better Times Ahead for Aviation Industry
May 1 2012 // The airline and aviation manufacturing insurance markets turned a profit in 2011 “following one of the safest years in recent times in terms of numbers of losses and passenger fatalities,” according to a review...
