All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2021 // Boeing Co. investors have reached an agreement with current and former company officers to settle a lawsuit over the safety oversight of the 737 MAX, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The proposed...
Nov 5 2021 // A Texas jury awarded more than $352 million last month to the family of a former Houston airport worker who was paralyzed from the chest down after a van driver struck him on the tarmac.The award, announced on Oct. 25 in...
Nov 4 2021 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Thursday it has referred more than three dozen unruly passengers to the FBI for potential criminal prosecution amid a sharp rise in onboard incidents this year.The FAA and...
Nov 2 2021 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has raised significant concerns about a plan to use spectrum for 5G wireless networks on aviation safety and is planning to issue a formal warning about the issue, according to...
Oct 28 2021 // A federal judge has rejected a bid by pilots to block Southwest Airlines from imposing a vaccine mandate, saying the Dallas-based airline is within its power to require vaccination as a safety measure.U.S. District Judge...
Oct 27 2021 // United Airlines Inc. told a federal judge the company is spending millions on paid leave for unvaccinated pilots because their colleagues “refuse to risk their safety” by flying with them.The leave is costing...
Oct 22 2021 // The University of North Dakota’s aerospace school has cancelled all flight activities after a student pilot from Chicago died in a plane crash.The University of North Dakota plane went down about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 18...
Oct 21 2021 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Thursday it was proposing to require flight attendants receive at least 10 hours of rest time between shifts after Congress had directed the action in 2018, according to a...
Oct 19 2021 // A federal report aimed at improving aviation safety in Alaska recommends improvements in providing weather information to pilots and continued work to update maps with information on mountain passes, among other steps.The...
Oct 19 2021 // Back in the cockpit after time off recovering from Covid-19, an airline pilot forgot to start his plane’s second engine for takeoff, a mistake that could have ended in disaster if he hadn’t aborted the...
Oct 5 2021 // The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had urged U.S. airports to limit the use of firefighting foam with the chemical PFAS due to the environmental and public health risks as it evaluates possible...
Sep 27 2021 // United Airlines Inc is facing claims that it unlawfully denied religious and medical exemptions from a requirement that employees receive COVID-19 vaccines after allegedly making it difficult for workers to apply for...
Sep 15 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three insurance companies: AXA XL, QBE and International General Insurance Holdings.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Promotes Innes as...
Sep 8 2021 // A Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday that Boeing’s board of directors must face a lawsuit from shareholders over two fatal 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in less than six months.Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn ruled...
Jul 30 2021 // Incidents with unruly passengers have become an everyday occurrence for flight attendants.A national survey of nearly 5,000 flight attendants found that more than 85 percent of all respondents had dealt with unruly...
Jul 28 2021 // NFP, a New York-based insurance broker and consultant, announced the formation of an exclusive strategic partnership in Canada with aviation re/insurance broker Piiq Risk Partners.The NFP Complex Risk Solutions Group will...
Jul 23 2021 // Chubb announced that it has set up an aviation hub in Canada to develop further its domestic general aviation and non-major aerospace business.The Canadian Aviation hub is part of a new regional focus for the aviation team...
Jul 20 2021 // This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at a new reinsurance broker, Ardonagh’s Inver Re; The Hartford’s Global Specialty business unit, and the aviation reinsurance division of MS Amlin...
Jun 24 2021 // Citing a concern over “opening the floodgates” to litigation, a federal judge has dismissed a flight attendant’s negligence lawsuit against her employer, Southwest Airlines, which she blamed for her...
Jun 23 2021 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it has launched a program to help make it easier for staff overseeing Boeing and other airplane manufacturers to report safety concerns.An independent survey...