All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2020 // Chinese hackers are suspected of accessing email and travel details of about nine million easyJet customers, said two sources familiar with the investigation into a cyber attack disclosed by the British airline on...
May 18 2020 // The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their helicopter slammed into a hillside...
May 14 2020 // Investigators are trying to determine how a man with apparently no security clearance ended up on a runway at a Texas airport where he was struck and killed by a landing commercial jet.Junin Ko, 22, died on May 7 after a...
May 12 2020 // EC3 Brokers announced the launch of its specialty division, with the appointment of Jonathon Lane as head of the division. Lane is joined by Dominic Toogood and Gary Moore. All three joined on May 1 and initially will...
May 11 2020 // A man was struck and killed on May 7 by a commercial jet landing on a runaway at an airport in Austin, Texas, authorities said.The pilot of Southwest Airlines Flight 1392, a Boeing 737 arriving from Dallas, reported seeing...
May 4 2020 // A United Airlines pilot whose charge of indecent exposure was dismissed sued the Denver, Colo. airport hotel where his arrest occurred.An attorney for Andrew Collins filed the lawsuit against The Westin Denver...
Apr 28 2020 // A United Airlines pilot whose charge of indecent exposure was dismissed sued the Denver, Colo. airport hotel where his arrest occurred.An attorney for Andrew Collins filed the lawsuit against The Westin Denver...
Apr 14 2020 // Severe weather swept across the South Monday, killing at least 19 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in...
Apr 14 2020 // An investigation into a 2018 plane crash that killed all six people aboard found that one of two pilots aboard the aircraft had drugs in his system and that the plane exceeded its weight limit according to a federal...
Apr 9 2020 // More insurers are coming forward every day with discounts, extended coverage and relaxed payment terms for insureds affected by shelter-in-place and other conditions required during the coronavirus crisis.Progressive...
Apr 7 2020 // More than 3,500 rental cars were damaged or destroyed in a fire that burned near a Florida airport before being contained late Friday night. The Fort Myers News-Press reports the cars were in a grassy area used as an...
Apr 7 2020 // United Airlines Holdings Inc. was sued by a passenger for refusing to issue refunds for canceled flights, three days after U.S. regulators ordered airlines to reimburse customers.The passenger, Jacob Rudolph, filed the...
Apr 6 2020 // Purchasers of travel insurance are finding their policies all but worthless as the global pandemic forces them to change their plans, or worse, leaves them sick at sea.Most travel insurance companies won’t provide...
Apr 5 2020 // Airplanes with a total insured value of more than $160 billion are grounded around the world, presenting risks for insurers, a report said on Friday.Singapore has the largest number of planes standing idle at airports, at...
Mar 27 2020 // The Federal Aviation Administration revoked a foundation’s permission to carry passengers aboard its World War II-era planes after a deadly crash in October.The agency cited safety concerns in its decision to...
Mar 26 2020 // Boeing will suspend operations at its Seattle area facilities due to the spread of coronavirus, idling tens of thousands of aerospace workers, the company said Monday.At least 110 people have died from COVID-19 in...
Mar 26 2020 // The pandemic that has idled scores of commercial flights is having a little-noticed consequence for meteorologists, whose forecasts rely in part on data collected from planes. That means a crucial eye in the sky has...
Mar 25 2020 // Companies in India are scrambling to ensure that the millions who staff the back offices of Wall Street banks and take on work outsourced by firms from airlines to insurers can keep going as the nation mandates increased...
Mar 23 2020 // The Denver International Airport has settled a dispute for more than $180 million with a contracting company that was fired before completing a terminal renovation project.The airport filed an agreement Friday in a...
Mar 20 2020 // With much of normal life at a screeching halt to combat the coronavirus, millions of people in Utah are hunkered down in the safety of their homes. But on Wednesday morning, even that protection felt fragile as an...