January 23, 2014
Petersen International Underwriters, a specialty insurance marketing and underwriting firm that writes aviation insurance business, has unveiled its new “loss of license” insurance for professional pilots. The product provides temporary and/or permanent loss of license coverage with monthly and lump …
July 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 investigators said on Thursday. The final report on the Rio-Paris …
May 31, 2011
A French airliner plunged out of control for four minutes before crashing into the Atlantic in 2009, investigators said, in a report raising questions about how the crew handled a “stall alarm” blaring out in the cabin. Information gleaned from …