All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2018 // London’s Gatwick airport is closed to aircraft following multiple sightings of illegal drones, disrupting flights for as many as 115,000 people on one of the busiest travel days of the year.Lines of passengers...
Dec 14 2018 // Grupo Aeromexico SAB is investigating whether a drone slammed into a Boeing Co. 737 jetliner as the aircraft approached its destination in Tijuana, Mexico, on the U.S. border.Images on local media showed considerable...
Dec 14 2018 // Flying cars, long a staple of science fiction, may be landing in the real world sooner than you think.Sleek vehicles floating above their more chaotic, terrestrial siblings are common trope in stories of a more...
Dec 12 2018 // Starr Insurance Cos. announced that Starr International Brasil Seguradora S.A. has been granted a local license to offer aviation insurance.“We are thrilled to be adding aviation capability in an important, growing...
Dec 11 2018 // Residents walked instead of driving cars and children enjoyed another day of building snowmen with school canceled Monday after a wintry storm dropped snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states.Accidents on...
Dec 11 2018 // Bureaucratic wrangling and funding problems have hampered the search for the cockpit voice recorder of a crashed Lion Air jet, prompting investigators to turn to the airline to foot the bill in a rare test of global norms...
Dec 10 2018 // A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the South on Sunday – causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people.North...
Dec 10 2018 // AssuredPartners Inc. has added the aviation book of business formerly owned by AOPA Insurance Agency Inc. into the AP Aerospace operations of AssuredPartners.AOPA is a Frederick, Md.-based aerospace specific association...
Dec 10 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based insurance broker, has acquired Boston Marks Insurance NZ in New Zealand, BMG Aviation in Australia and the book of business of Boston Marks Insurance Brokers...
Dec 9 2018 // Winter Storm Diego struck the Southeastern region of the U.S. Saturday night, ravaging travel plans and wiping power from hundreds of thousands of homes. The snowstorm was expected to persist throughout Sunday, with flight...
Dec 7 2018 // Aviation authorities in Indonesia and India on Thursday pushed for more simulator training for Boeing Co 737 MAX pilots following the deadly Lion Air crash, while the world’s largest planemaker reiterated that its...
Dec 5 2018 // A drill bit left during repair of a single-engine Cessna aircraft is responsible for a 2015 crash in Arkansas that caused minor injuries to the pilot and destroyed the new $712,290 aircraft, a federal lawsuit filed in...
Nov 30 2018 // As Boeing Co. was developing its latest version of the 737 airliner, it discovered the design was slightly more prone to a loss of control. So the company added a computer-driven safety feature — one that is now a...
Nov 27 2018 // A wintry storm brought blizzard-like conditions to parts of the Midwest early Monday, grounding hundreds of flights and causing slick roads for commuters as they returned to work after the Thanksgiving weekend.The Chicago...
Nov 25 2018 // A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in which victims’ families sought to hold the carrier, its insurer Allianz SE and Boeing Co. liable for the...
Nov 19 2018 // In response to cyber and digital risk being identified as the top concern facing airports today¹, Willis Towers Watson has introduced CyFly for Airports, an insurance solution specifically tailored to cover cyber...
Nov 16 2018 // Boeing Co. has been sued in what may be the first U.S. claim tied to the crash of Lion Air Flight 610, which dove into the Java Sea after taking off from Jakarta Oct. 29.Irianto, the father of Dr. Rio Nanda Pratama, an...
Nov 15 2018 // Cathay Pacific Airways said on Wednesday it is working with 27 regulators in 15 jurisdictions to investigate a data breach that affected millions of passengers, as Hong Kong lawmakers grilled executives over how it handled...
Nov 15 2018 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigative hearing on Wednesday into the fatal engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that killed one passenger.Dallas-based Southwest has been under...
Nov 15 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Simon Tardif as head Aviation Canada, effective Oct. 29, 2018. In this role, Tardif will be responsible for the growth and strategy of the aviation team across Canada.He has...