All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 6 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, Chubb Global Markets and the insurtech bolttech.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Promotes 3 Senior...
Jan 5 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.If you’re looking for proof that outdated technology, manual processes, and data silos can result in catastrophe, all you need to do is peek under the hood of...
Jan 4 2023 // A small plane with four passengers crashed at a Utah airport, killing one and injuring the other three, according to city officials in Provo.The plane crashed immediately after takeoff on Monday and one of the three...
Jan 3 2023 // Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when an operational meltdown led the carrier to cancel more than 15,000 flights late last month.In a...
Jan 3 2023 // An airport worker in Montgomery, Alabama, was killed Saturday when he was sucked into the engine of a plane.Local and state news reports said the ground crew worker, whose name has not been released, was ingested into the...
Dec 29 2022 // STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) – A military cargo aircraft carrying the U.S. Air Force Academy women’s basketball team to a game at Oklahoma State University landed without authorization at the city’s airport and...
Dec 28 2022 // Southwest Airlines Co. on Dec. 27 came under fire from the U.S. government after the low-cost carrier kept canceling flights due to harsh winter weather that grounded planes and disrupted holiday travel.U.S. airlines have...
Dec 28 2022 // Grohs Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance reports that it acquired Wings Agency of Hainesport, New Jersey on December 22, 2022. Wings Agency was founded by Hobart “Bud” Montee over half a century ago. His...
Dec 27 2022 // Russian airlines have held exploratory talks with at least one major Western leasing firm about using state funds to buy some of the more than 400 aircraft stranded in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, according to...
Dec 20 2022 // Severe turbulence rocked a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu Sunday, seriously injuring 11 people in what an Hawaiian Airlines official called an isolated and unusual event.Jon Snook, the airline’s chief operating...
Dec 15 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the global insurance broker, announced the acquisition of Brisbane, Queensland-based Aviation Insurance Australia.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1993, Aviation...
Nov 30 2022 // Aircraft leasing firms are suing dozens of insurers for around $8 billion in a string of lawsuits over the loss of hundreds of aircraft stuck in Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.More than 400 leased planes...
Nov 29 2022 // SMBC Aviation Capital has joined most of the world’s largest aircraft lessors in pursuing insurance claims through the courts over jets it owns that are stuck in Russia, an Irish High Court filing...
Nov 22 2022 // Aircraft leasing firms are suing dozens of insurers for around $6.5 billion in a string of lawsuits over the loss of hundreds of aircraft stuck in Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.More than 400 leased planes...
Nov 22 2022 // One of four workers who inhaled carbon dioxide in an accident at Los Angeles International Airport has died, his family said.Cris Abraham, 36, of Lomita died on Nov. 11 at a hospital where he’d been in a medically...
Nov 18 2022 // United Airlines will pay $305,000 to a Buddhist pilot and will provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency’s New...
Nov 17 2022 // LOS ANGELES (AP) – One of four workers who inhaled carbon dioxide in an accident at Los Angeles International Airport has died, his family said.Cris Abraham, 36, of Lomita died on Nov. 11 at a hospital where he’d...
Nov 15 2022 // DALLAS (AP) – Two historic military planes collided and crashed to the ground in a ball of flames during a Dallas air show, leaving six people dead, officials said.National transportation officials were investigating the...
Nov 14 2022 // BOC Aviation Ltd. has begun legal action in pursuit of claims against 16 insurers over aircraft the lessor owns that are stuck in Russia, an Irish High Court filing shows.The insurers named in the proceedings, which the...
Nov 8 2022 // Four workers were injured, including one critically, by a release of carbon dioxide in a Los Angeles International Airport utility room, authorities said.One man was initially in grave condition but was upgraded to...