Most Popular Aviation Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Aviation Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Two Killed in Small Plane Crash at South Florida Airport, the Second This Year
May 30 2023 // A flight instructor and a student pilot died Friday when a small plane crashed at a south Florida airport, Palm Beach County authorities said. The crash at the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana happened shortly...
#2 Aircraft Lessors Sue Insurers for $6.5 Billion Over Planes Trapped in Russia
Nov 22 2022 // Aircraft leasing firms are suing dozens of insurers for around $6.5 billion in a string of lawsuits over the loss of hundreds of aircraft stuck in Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. More than 400 leased...
#3 Wheelchair-Bound Woman Injured While Boarding Flight Has Died a Year Later
Feb 2 2023 // One year after a Florida woman was paralyzed while trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Fort Lauderdale, she has died. Her family’s lawsuit against the airline and a staffing company continues. The South...
#4 Southwest Airlines Is Sued for Not Providing Refunds After Meltdown
Jan 3 2023 // Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when an operational meltdown led the carrier to cancel more than 15,000 flights late last month. In a...
#5 Southwest Cancels Thousands More Flights; U.S. Government Vows Scrutiny
Dec 28 2022 // Southwest Airlines Co. on Dec. 27 came under fire from the U.S. government after the low-cost carrier kept canceling flights due to harsh winter weather that grounded planes and disrupted holiday travel. U.S. airlines have...
#6 Carlyle Aviation Sues Insurers Over Seized Planes Leased to Russian Airlines
Nov 1 2022 // Carlyle Aviation Partners said it sued a group of insurance companies and re-insurers claiming they failed to pay for losses stemming from the seizure of planes leased to Russian airlines following the invasion of...
#7 United Airlines CEO Blames FAA as Storms Trigger Flight Cancellations
Jun 28 2023 // United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby has blamed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after severe storms led to thousands of canceled flights in recent days. “I’m … frustrated that the FAA...
#8 Alabama Airport Worker Killed After Being Caught in Jet Engine
Jan 3 2023 // An airport worker in Montgomery, Alabama, was killed Saturday when he was sucked into the engine of a plane. Local and state news reports said the ground crew worker, whose name has not been released, was ingested into the...
#9 United Airlines in $30 Million Settlement With Quadriplegic Man’s Family
Aug 24 2023 // United Airlines has agreed to a $30 million settlement after a deplaning incident left a quadriplegic man in a vegetative state, court papers show. The settlement with the family of Nathaniel Foster Jr, known as N.J., was...
#10 Baggage Handler at New Orleans’ Airport Killed in Accident
Sep 2 2022 // A 26-year-old worker at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport was killed after an accident while unloading baggage from a Frontier Airlines flight, authorities said. The Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office...
#11 Aircraft Lessors’ Lawsuits Against Their Insurers Rise to $8B for Seized Russian Planes
Nov 30 2022 // Aircraft leasing firms are suing dozens of insurers for around $8 billion in a string of lawsuits over the loss of hundreds of aircraft stuck in Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. More than 400 leased planes...
#12 U.S. Airports’ Outdated Tech Leaves Planes Vulnerable to Runway Near-Misses
Apr 6 2023 // A crucial safety system that’s relied on to avoid potentially fatal collisions at major US airports is aging and plagued by outages that have left travelers unprotected for months at a time. At some airports, it...
#13 Shareholders Sue Southwest Airlines Over Flight Meltdown
Jan 13 2023 // Shareholders filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Co. on Thursday, accusing the carrier of fraudulently concealing problems that led last month to an operational meltdown and more than 15,000 flight...
#14 Update: U.S. Flight Departures Resume After FAA Lifts Ground Stop
Jan 11 2023 // US flight departures began resuming early Wednesday after an overnight outage to a key air-traffic system prompted authorities to ground planes nationwide. The Federal Aviation Administration said normal air traffic...
#15 Judge Orders Boeing Arraigned on MAX Fraud Charge
Jan 20 2023 // A federal judge on Thursday ordered Boeing Co BA.N to appear in court on Jan. 26 to be arraigned on a 2021 felony charge after families of those killed in two fatal crashes objected to a 2021 plea deal. Boeing won immunity...
#16 US Airport Websites Knocked Offline by Pro-Russia Hackers
Oct 12 2022 // A pro-Russian hacktivist group is claiming credit for a series of disruptions that temporarily knocked the websites of some US airports offline. The group, called Killnet, has engaged in a series of cyberattacks in recent...
#17 United Airlines to Pay Buddhist Pilot $305K to Settle Religious Discrimination Claim
Nov 18 2022 // United Airlines will pay $305,000 to a Buddhist pilot and will provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency’s New...
#18 Boeing Crashes: Passengers’ Families Deemed Crime Victims
Oct 25 2022 // A federal judge ruled Friday that relatives of people killed in the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max planes are crime victims under federal law and should have been told about private negotiations over a settlement that...
#19 2 Killed in Construction Trench Accident at New York’s JFK Airport
Apr 5 2023 // Two workers were killed in a construction accident at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday, officials said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said the two...
#20 NTSB Findings on Hawaii Airlines Turbulence That inured Passengers
Jan 17 2023 // A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report by the...
