All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 13 2014 // Leading companies offering medical evacuation services are drawing a line at flying Ebola patients out of West Africa for treatment abroad as the cost and the complexities of the deadly epidemic grow.Several airlines have...
Oct 10 2014 // Three former workers at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kan., who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the aircraft maker and one of its suppliers failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6 billion...
Oct 7 2014 // Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that...
Oct 3 2014 // SterlingRisk, a national insurance brokerage based in Woodbury, New York, has hired Barry Wolf as executive vice president of the aviation division.Wolf will be responsible for developing the firm’s Aircraft...
Oct 2 2014 // NSM Insurance Group announced the acquisition of Specialty Aviation Underwriters (SAU), located in Addison, Texas.Founded over 20 years ago, SAU specializes in aviation products. NSM Insurance Group underwrites more than...
Oct 2 2014 // More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said.The people have been asked to report to...
Oct 1 2014 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced the launch of a new insurance product, developed by Aon Benfield’s ReSolutions team that “is set to drive growth in...
Sep 29 2014 // The havoc created by a suicidal technician at a Chicago-area flight-control center has some lawmakers asking how a single person armed with gasoline and knives could bring down part of the U.S. air-traffic system.Damage...
Sep 26 2014 // European airlines received permission from regulators to have passengers use personal electronic devices including mobile phones during flight, removing one of the last remaining bastions of talk-free zones.The European...
Sep 23 2014 // Washington’s Supreme Court says in a split decision that Boeing can’t be sued over a worker’s death from asbestos exposure.Worker Gary Walston was exposed to asbestos throughout his long career at Boeing,...
Sep 22 2014 // AviationImprovements in airline safety are leading to far fewer catastrophic losses overall, despite 2014’s extraordinary loss activity. However, the cost of aviation claims is rising, driven by the widespread use of...
Sep 15 2014 // Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with high winds and rain.Odile went ashore near the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at about 10:45...
Sep 15 2014 // Mexico issued a hurricane warning for parts of Baja California as Odile struck the resort area of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the peninsula.Mexico declared a red alert along the coastline as well as the mainland...
Sep 10 2014 // Four times as many pilots killed in airplane crashes tested positive for drugs over the past two decades, tracking a broader societal trend in the use of antihistamines, painkillers and marijuana.While most of the...
Sep 9 2014 // Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine after being hit by “a large number of high-energy objects,” the Dutch Safety Board said in findings that appear to point to a missile attack on the...
Sep 8 2014 // Missions flown from the NASA base here have documented some of the most dramatic evidence of a warming planet over the past 20 years: the melting of polar ice, a force contributing to a global rise in ocean levels.The...
Sep 4 2014 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, announced the appointment of former broker Charles Hollingworth as an underwriter.Hollingworth joined from Aon Risk Solutions where he was a...
Aug 29 2014 // Iceland reduced its aviation warning level to orange on Friday after concluding that a small eruption in the Bardarbunga volcano system that triggered a hours-long red alert actually posed no threat to aircraft.No sign of...
Aug 29 2014 // Iceland put airlines on the highest level of alert after authorities detected an eruption north of the Bardarbunga volcano.The Icelandic Met Office raised the alert over the site to red and flights have been banned below...
Aug 29 2014 // The massive undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended farther south based on new satellite analysis, only weeks before the multimillion dollar, yearlong sonar hunt...