All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2011 // With an 11th fatality declared as a result of the crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nev. on Sept. 16, one of the world’s airshow insurance experts is anxious to draw a distinction between airshows...
Oct 3 2011 // Business travelers say there’s no substitute for being there. Even though budgets are tight and new technology makes it easy for people to connect virtually anywhere, businesses understand that it is crucial for...
Sep 29 2011 // Typhoon Nesat hit Hainan Island in south China on Thursday after it swept past Hong Kong, closing financial markets, schools and most businesses in one of Asia’s largest financial centers.China recalled ships and...
Sep 27 2011 // Even after settling what had been the last wrongful death lawsuit against the airlines over the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the family of Mark Bavis warned that neither those companies, nor government regulators have done...
Sep 21 2011 // With an 11th fatality declared as a result of the crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nev. on Friday, one of the world’s largest airshow insurers is anxious to draw a distinction between airshows...
Sep 21 2011 // The last wrongful death lawsuit remaining from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been resolved with a settlement, according to an attorney for the family of a passenger on a plane that was flown by hijackers into the...
Sep 19 2011 // Investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact at an air race crash in Reno as a 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming like a missile into a crowded tarmac.The death...
Sep 15 2011 // Lloyd’s of London’s Syndicate 3500 filed a federal lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, several Saudi charity and financial organizations and prominent Saudi individuals over 9/11 terror attacks. The insurer said...
Sep 14 2011 // The airline industry had a “relatively turbulent free start to the third quarter, with losses hitting a five-year low of $794 million,” according to the latest report from the Aerospace division of Willis Group...
Aug 29 2011 // As Tropical Storm Irene churned up the eastern seaboard it left many of New England’s coastal states relatively unscathed, while inflicting some of the worst damage on landlocked Vermont, where severe flooding is now...
Aug 29 2011 // Slow-moving Typhoon Nanmadol remained dangerous Sunday despite weakening as it struck the tip of the mountainous northern Philippines, leaving at least eight people dead and scuttling a visit by a U.S. Navy battleship...
Aug 26 2011 // North Carolina braced Friday for a direct hit from Hurricane Irene, cities along the U.S. east coast were on alert and millions of beach goers cut short vacations to escape the powerful storm.With more than 50 million...
Aug 26 2011 // Large and powerful Hurricane Irene roared across the Bahamas archipelago on Wednesday, knocking down trees and destroying homes on a path that officials said posed the greatest threat to the country’s smaller,...
Aug 23 2011 // A strong earthquake struck the U.S. East Coast and was felt as far away as Canada on Tuesday, shaking buildings in many cities, delaying flights and trains and sending thousands of frightened workers into the streets.There...
Jul 29 2011 // French investigators said on Friday that the crew of Air France’s Rio-Paris flight which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago ignored repeated stall warnings and failed to follow textbook procedures.France’s...
Jul 29 2011 // The Massachusetts Port Authority was dismissed as a defendant from the last pending wrongful death lawsuit related to the Sept. 11 attacks, leaving United Airlines and a security company facing a trial in which airport...
Jul 25 2011 // Willis’ monthly airline insurance insight report indicates that “the insurance market has remained remarkably stable for airlines, with no change in the drivers of capacity and claims.“The experience of...
Jul 20 2011 // Passengers on a Continental Airlines flight that crashed at Denver International Airport are blaming air traffic controllers for the accident. A lawsuit filed in federal court by 21 passengers claims air traffic...
Jul 18 2011 // Here’s a bedtime story I tell my little ones. Back in the dark ages when I went to college, there was no Internet. Cell phones, for the few who had them, were called car phones since they were installed in cars....
Jul 4 2011 // The family of a Massachusetts man killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks says in court documents that private security screeners at Logan International Airport were not made aware of the terrorist threat from...