All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2014 // Erie Insurance Group recently filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking permission for commercial operations of small unmanned drone aircraft.The Erie, Pennsylvania-based insurer said in its Nov....
Dec 3 2014 // NSM Insurance Group has named Larry Mattiello director of specialty aviation underwriters. Mattiello began his aviation insurance career 35 years ago and has experience in general aviation insurance, safety and risk...
Dec 3 2014 // Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world’s top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to...
Dec 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
Nov 24 2014 // The first time Carl Dietrich brought his flying-car concept to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he had only a video to show the aviation geeks who wandered by...
Nov 24 2014 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says recent near misses between aerial drones and aircraft at New York City’s Kennedy Airport show the need for federal regulations on the small, remote controlled aircraft.The New...
Nov 24 2014 // The Atlantic hurricane season will officially end November 30, and will be remembered as a relatively quiet season as was predicted, according to weather scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Nov 20 2014 // Lake-effect snow that killed six people and halted travel across western New York may reach as high as 7 feet in some areas before stopping tomorrow, when temperatures will start to rise along with the risk of flooding.At...
Nov 19 2014 // A small twin-engine cargo plane crashed into a home on Chicago’s southwest side on Nov. 18, killing the pilot but sparing a couple who were asleep just inches away.The Aero Commander 500 slammed into the front of the...
Nov 18 2014 // Integro announced it’s enhancing its aviation practice with the addition of sector specialist Leslie DeWald as managing principal. DeWald and her team of four will be based in Park City, Utah. They specialize in...
Nov 18 2014 // The U.S. government’s ability to regulate drones was upheld today by a federal safety board, which overturned a judge’s decision that aviation regulations don’t apply to small unmanned aircraft.The...
Nov 17 2014 // The government is getting near-daily reports — and sometimes two or three a day — of drones flying near airplanes and helicopters or close to airports without permission, federal and industry officials told The...
Nov 14 2014 // The Houston City Council has approved allowing ridesharing companies such as Lyft and Uber to operate at airports.Council members adopted rules that such vehicles would need city and airport-specific permits. The Houston...
Nov 13 2014 // Catlin Group Limited, the Bermuda-based specialty property & casualty insurer and reinsurer, has issued its interim management statement for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014, which shows premiums reported...
Nov 10 2014 // UK insurer Pembroke Managing Agency, who recently began offering life coverage for would-be space tourists, said it has seen no increase in interest in the policy following the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic test space...
Nov 7 2014 // The fatal crash of a small plane into a flight safety training center at the Wichita Airport has disrupted pilot training on some Cessna models, but efforts are being made to provide alternatives, company officials said.A...
Nov 6 2014 // CNA Financial Corporation announced several senior appointments to the Energy, Marine and Aviation (EMA) team of London-based Hardy (Underwriting Agencies) Limited, an independent wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of CNA,...
Nov 3 2014 // Two children of a passenger on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 have sued the company and the Malaysian government for damages, the first lawsuit to be filed over the aircraft which disappeared in March.The two Malaysian...
Nov 2 2014 // Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It’s what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.In the...
Oct 31 2014 // A spacecraft for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Ltd. tourism operator crashed during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert, killing the co-pilot and injuring the pilot.The pilot ejected and suffered...