* FINANCE Newport Beach-based distressed-debt specialist Sabal Financial Group LP acquired a $204 million loan portfolio from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The bundle is part of a larger portfolio sale of more...
MIAMI -- Lewis S. "Mike" Eidson, partner at the nationally recognized trial law firm Colson Hicks Eidson and former president of the American Association for Justice - the world's largest association of trial...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS US subsidiary of defence and security company Saab, Saab Sensis Corporation on Thursday announced that it has been selected by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the...
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS US subsidiary of defence and security company Saab, Saab Sensis Corporation on Thursday announced that it has been selected by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the...
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- With an extraordinary life story as told in the bestseller Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, 94-year old Louis Zamperini will speak at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church at its weekend services...
* Executive Director Tim Kupferschmid to Lead Sorenson Forensics Team on January Mission to West African Nation * DNA Lab Will Provide 21(st) Century Law Enforcement Science to Africa's Most Populous Country SALT...
Batteries used in mobile phones and laptop computers, which can spontaneously combust, will destroy an average of one U. S. -registered cargo jet every other year, a government analysis has concluded. Shipments of...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Monday said that poor management of fuel in some aircraft operations continues to pose a serious risk to aviation. Fuel mismanagement...
Margaret Mahoney, president of the Commonwealth Fund from 1980 to 1995, died Dec. 22. She was 87. Mahoney, who previously was a senior executive for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, was called "a...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There has been discussion about the viability of an Arctic deep water port in the United States, but those talks took a serious turn when Senator Lisa Murkowski joined Secretary of...
What makes a prediction a good one? Like any announcement that must compete for attention in the public sphere, the predictions that gather the most notice are the strangest or the boldest, or...
Accident Prevention The November 201 1 issue of Plane & Pilot had two very good articles relating to pilot safety and accident prevention. "Fuel Imbalance" by Peter Katz shows why we need to...
HEADNOTE Safety in air racing depends on the airplane as well as the pilot After a highly modified World War II P-51 Mustang crashed into spectators at die National Championship Air Races at...
SAN DIEGO -- A United States District Court Judge today returned a $17,845,000 verdict for the heirs of four people killed when a U.S. Marine F-18 fighter jet crashed into their family home...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The FedEx Master Executive Council (MEC), the FedEx branch of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), issued the following press release concerning the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) final regulations...
Regulatory Governance and Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry 2011, by BingTui Yang, published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, hardbound, 196 pp., SME,...
David Soucie PS: What inspired your book, Why Planes Crash? David: Aviation safety is very personal for me. As a young executive with an emergency medical helicopter service, I was asked to purchase...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Monday announced it is deploying a team to the Region of Waterloo International Airport in Ontario. A team is being...
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Monday announced it is deploying a team to the Region of Waterloo International Airport in Ontario. A team is being...
The type uses two Ivchenko Progress D-436-148 turbofans The fuselage of the An-158 is 1.7m longer than the An-148, and its wings, of the same dimensions, are equipped with winglets Past glories do...