All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2008 // Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday that it had to ground an Airbus A380 on Monday and transfer passengers to two smaller Boeing 747s bound for Sydney, after a fuel pump failed to work.This was the fourth incident in...
Mar 24 2008 // $1.9 MillionNew York-based aviation fueling company Allied Aviation Services Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to black and Hispanic workers at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to settle a racial...
Mar 19 2008 // The Navy says Marines from Maryland and Florida were killed when their plane crashed into an Alabama mountain during a training flight.Instructor pilot Maj. David Yaggy, 34, of Sparks, Md., and 2nd Lt. Alexander Prezioso,...
Mar 19 2008 // Insurance companies have agreed to pay $165 million (euro104.63 million) to settle lawsuits brought by relatives of those killed in a 2000 plane crash in the Philippines, lawyers for the families said.The families of about...
Mar 17 2008 // A Wilmington, N.C. fire captain died last week when his helicopter crashed and exploded near the city, authorities said.John Miller was the only passenger in the helicopter, said Sgt. Craig Bredenbeck of the New Hanover...
Mar 13 2008 // An aviation fueling company with headquarters in New York has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to black and Hispanic workers at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who said they were taunted with hangman’s...
Mar 7 2008 // Aon’s recently published “Aerospace Insurance Market Review 2007” highlights the year’s “soft market driven by high capacity and historically low claims.”Aon determined that the...
Mar 5 2008 // Travelers’ Aviation unit has introduced a new workers’ compensation insurance program for corporate flight departments.Travelers’ new aviation workers’ compensation program will provide coverage for...
Mar 4 2008 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide is assessing the damages caused by windstorm Emma, which swept across Western and Southern Germany, as well as Austria and the Czech Republic on Saturday, March 1. No damage estimates have yet...
Mar 3 2008 // An experimental plane that may have been having trouble landing struck another that was taxiing at an airfield March 1, setting both on fire and killing two people, authorities said. Two people were critically injured.The...
Feb 28 2008 // Chicago-based NationAir Aviation Insurance recently announced that it has joined with Parade of Pistons as the expo’s exclusive aviation insurance partner.Parade of Pistons is a series of regional aircraft expos...
Feb 27 2008 // Aon’s “Airline Insurance Market Review of 2007” cites the “high level of hull and liability claims, at US$1.7 billion, coupled with the lowest amount of lead hull and liability premium since 2000...
Feb 22 2008 // A judge’s controversial ruling in a Kentucky plane crash liability case has sparked concern across the aviation industry about the long-term survival of a popular program that allows air travel workers to privately...
Jan 28 2008 // EADS, the European consortium that designs and builds the Airbus coimmercial aircraft, has selected Willis Group Holdings as the insurance broker for a new Airbus A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China – the...
Jan 25 2008 // The recent “incident” at London’s Heathrow Airport (a British Airways Boeing 777 lost power just before landing and nearly crashed injuring several passengers) is not going to cause any significant rise...
Jan 18 2008 // A former United Airlines flight attendant has settled a suit claiming she was wrongfully fired after close friends and colleagues were killed on a jet hijacked during the September 11 terrorist attacks.Deborah Jackson said...
Jan 17 2008 // NASCAR’s insurance company has settled with the family of a Florida woman and infant killed last year when a plane owned by the racing organization slammed into their home, the family’s attorney said Monday.The...
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
Dec 28 2007 // A bulletin on the Lloyd’s web site (www.lloyds.com) notes that the State of New Mexico and Virgin Galactic recently announced plans to construct a “multi-million pound spaceport.” As a result...
Dec 23 2007 // Ice storms slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands beginning Dec. 9 as the storms swept across the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes.The wintry weather continued and...