The steady rise in interest rates of instruments such as U.S. Treasuries, that are typically used as collateral for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralized reinsurance investments, have ...

Just about every aircraft that has flown over the past 50 years—whether a single-engine Cessna or a 600-seat jumbo jet—is aided by radios to safely land at airports. These instrument landing systems ...

Step by painful step, pilots are learning how to land their aircraft in the foulest weather. Latest step: Hitching electronic landing systems to the automatic pilot, known to service pilots as “George ...

George - A 29-year-old faulty instrument-landing system at George Airport is only one of the factors in a chain of events that led to Hansie Cronje's death. It is internationally accepted practice to ...

Can an ILS system generate false information without flagging the cockpit instrumentation? Most pilots would answer ``no,'' but a group of air carrier safety experts discovered that the answer is ...

A $52 million share offering from Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund has pushed the rapidly expanding insurance-linked securities (ILS) instruments on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) beyond the $7 ...