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Eurocontrol: No Major Ash Impact on Air Traffic

May 27 2011 // No significant disruptions of air traffic are expected in Europe in coming days as a result of volcanic activity, Eurocontrol said Thursday. The air traffic agency said activity from Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano has...

Icelandic Ash Cloud Shuts UK Flights; Britain Says Airspace Open

May 24 2011 // About 250 flights to northern Britain were cancelled on Tuesday over concerns about the ash cloud spewing from an Icelandic volcano, but British and Irish officials dismissed fears of a mass shutdown of airspace. The...

Europe on Alert for Icelandic Volcano Ash Cloud

May 23 2011 // An eruption by Iceland’s most active volcano put Europe on high alert on Monday as a billowing ash cloud drifted towards Scotland and threatened to shut down airports across the northern edge of the...

Tensions between Air France, Airbus Erupt in Crash Investigation

May 19 2011 // A row has erupted between Air France and Airbus as pressure grows to explain the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash using data recovered from black boxes. The tensions were laid bare inadvertently by a top official, following days...

French Crash Probe Raises No Urgent A330 Safety Concerns

May 17 2011 // Preliminary readings of black box data recovered from a French Airbus plane that crashed in the Atlantic have eased any immediate concerns over the safety of A330 aircraft, but investigators warned on Tuesday against...

Former New Orleans Aviation Director Sentenced in Insurance Fraud Case

May 13 2011 // A federal judge has sentenced Sean Hunter, the former director of aviation at Louis Armstrong International Airport, to one year and a day in prison in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case. The Times-Picayune reports...

Air France Crash Investigators to Open Black Boxes

May 12 2011 // Relatives of some of the 228 people killed in a Rio-Paris jet crash voiced hope on Thursday that their two-year wait for an explanation may soon be over as experts prepared to open the aircraft’s “black...

Searchers Find Second Air France Crash Flight Recorder

May 3 2011 // Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil’s northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Air France aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009, investigators said on...

Missouri Jury Awards $48 Million in Skydiving Plane Crash

May 2 2011 // A jury has awarded $48 million to relatives of five people killed when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a rural Missouri airport in 2006. The jury in Union, Mo., on April 28 sided against London-based...

Deep Sea Search Locates, Recovers Air France Flight Data Recorder

May 2 2011 // Deep sea search parties have found one of two flight data recorders from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, investigators said on Sunday, reviving hopes of understanding what caused the...

St. Louis Cleaning Up After Tornado Hits Airport, Local Communities

Apr 25 2011 // Flights began departing the St. Louis, Mo., airport on April 24 for the first time since a tornado struck two days earlier. Departures began Sunday morning at Lambert Airport, even as cleanup continued. The C concourse...

Declarations

Apr 18 2011 // An Active Season “We expect that anomalously warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures, combined with neutral tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures, will contribute to an active season.” —Phil...

Japan Businesses Demand Compensation for Nuclear Evacutaion

Apr 14 2011 // Small business owners and laborers forced to leave their homes and jobs because of radiation leaking from Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant rode a bus all the way to Tokyo on Wednesday to demand compensation from...

Aon Analysis Finds Airlines Seeing Passenger Numbers Increasing in 2011

Apr 5 2011 // According to Aon Risk Solutions, recently released “Airline Insurance Market Outlook, 2011,” the Aon airline industry has “started to recover since the darkest days of the financial crisis, with rising...

Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit

Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...

Judge in Kansas Upholds Ruling in Boeing Age Discrimination Suit

Mar 30 2011 // A federal judge in Wichita, Kan., has refused to reconsider his earlier ruling siding with The Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems in an age discrimination lawsuit brought by former workers in the wake of Boeing’s 2005...

Proudlove Named VP at Global Aerospace

Mar 24 2011 // Global Aerospace Inc. named Christopher Proudlove vice president, manager complex risks. Proudlove, based in New Jersey, joined Global Aerospace in 2005 and has underwritten Global’s general aviation portfolio...

Airbus Placed Under Investigation over Rio-Paris Crash

Mar 18 2011 // European airplane manufacturer Airbus was placed under investigation on Thursday for the 2009 crash of a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris that killed 228 people, Airbus Chief Executive Thomas Enders...

California Earthquake Authority Targets $5 Million to Help Agents Sell Insurance

Mar 7 2011 // New Zealand’s 6.3 magnitude Christchurch earthquake is expected to be one of the costliest global insurance events since 2008, with total insured losses ranging between $3 billion and $12 billion. And it’s not...

California Earthquake Authority Targets $5 Million to Help Agents Sell Earthquake Insurance