A.M. Best: Germanwings Crash May Put More Pressure on Aviation War Sector March 31, 2015 A.M. Best said the total insurance loss of Germanwings Flight 4U9525, which crashed in the French Alps on March 24,...
Germanwings Crash Shows Need for Protections Against Suicidal Crew Members March 26, 2015 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein The suspected intentional destruction of a Germanwings jet by a pilot shows the need for new protections against suicidal crew...
Co-Pilot Likely Crashed Germanwings A320 Deliberately: French Prosecutor March 26, 2015 By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet and Tim Hepher The co-pilot of the Germanwings airliner that crashed in the French Alps killing all 150 people aboard appears to have...
Allianz Is Lead Underwriter for Crashed Germanwings Airbus A320 March 25, 2015 German insurer Allianz confirmed it was the lead insurance underwriter for the Airbus A320 plane which crashed in the French...
AirAsia Captain Left Seat Before Jet Lost Control: Sources February 2, 2015 By Siva Govindasamy, Kanupriya Kapoor and Tim Hepher The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an...
Pilots Disabled Critical Computers Just Before AirAsia Crash January 30, 2015 By Alan Levin, Herdaru Purnomo and Kyunghee Park The pilots of AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going...
How AirAsia Investigators Will Use Black Box to Crack Crash Mystery January 14, 2015 By Alan Levin, David Fickling and Rieka Rahadiana Listening to a recording of ValuJet Flight 592’s last moments, investigator J.F. Joseph kept hearing sounds the pilots hadn’t talked...
AirAsia Search Hampered by Bad Weather; Black Box Locater Deployed January 2, 2015 By Fathiya Dahrul, Niluksi Koswanage and Yudith Ho Search teams looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner’s black box will deploy side-scan sonar and pinger locaters as inclement...
Adverse Weather Hinders Efforts to Recover AirAsia Flight Data Recorders December 31, 2014 By Fathiya Dahrul, Rieka Rahadiana and Yudith Ho Indonesian authorities began deploying divers to find debris from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as a day of adverse weather...
Update: Debris From AirAsia Plane Found in Ocean; First Bodies Retrieved December 30, 2014 By Chong Pooi Koon, Rieka Rahadiana and Yudith Ho Indonesian search crews recovered debris and bodies floating in the sea from the AirAsia Bhd. airliner that went missing three...