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our strategic partners
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Polaris Enterprise Group, Inc.
The Polaris group acts as the facilitators of AAIRRG and will administer the day to day operations and management of AAIRRG. They are an independently run
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Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA)
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association is the leading international trade association representing certificated aviation maintenance and alteration
facilities. ARSA is endorsing AAIRRG as the association's product liability insurance program and supporting AAIRRG's formation. |
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OFM&K
Obadal, Filler, MacLeod & Klein, P.L.C. provides regulatory, legislative, and administrative counsel services to businesses and trade associations in the
nation's capital. The firm has an internationally-respected aviation regulatory compliance practice. OFM&K will be administering AAIRRG's risk management
program and conducting on-site inspections of member companies. |
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Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc.
Pinnacle is the independent actuarial firm for AAIRRG engaged to provide actuarial loss cost projections and feasibility studies involving pro forma
projections. They worked with Polaris and the NTSB to provide a comprehensive loss cost study that includes 14 years of data provided by the NTSB with
litigation valuations provided by Rose Walker, LLP. They will be engaged on an ongoing basis to provide loss reserve and consulting services to AAIRRG once the
program is operational. Pinnacle ranks among the top 10 largest property and casualty actuarial firms in the United States. |
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Rose•Walker, LLP
Rose•Walker, LLP is one of the most respected aviation defense law firms in the North America dealing with aviation litigation world wide. They are retained as
general defense counsel for AAIRRG and will be leading all of the claims and defense work for AAIRRG. |
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American Airlines aims to cut 13,000 jobs
The parent of
American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs — 15 percent of its workforce — as the
nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection... |
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When Stupid is
Criminal
This afternoon, 57-year old Steven Fay will appear in court in Massachusetts to face
criminal charges for being supremely stupid, recklessly stupid, deadly stupid. In what some aviation
attorneys say is extremely unusual, a private pilot has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter
for unintentionally crashing his airplane and killing his daughter... |
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Airbus Superjumbo Wing Checks Will Affect Almost One-Third of A380 Fleet
Airlines operating
Airbus SAS (EAD)’s A380 superjumbo must ground 20 planes or almost one-third of the world fleet
within the next six weeks to check for wing cracks... |
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Boeing Departure Shakes Wichita’s Identity as Airplane Capital
The crowd gathered at the local headquarters for Boeing was euphoric. The company had just won one
of the largest military contracts in history. Thousands of the resulting jobs, Boeing had promised,
would be headed here, to the sprawling manufacturing complex where residents have been building
airplanes for generations... |
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AirTran Ordered to Rehire Pilot Fired Over Safety Reporting
AirTran Airways (AAI), a unit of
Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), was ordered by the U.S. to rehire and pay more than $1 million in back
wages to a pilot fired in 2007 after he reported mechanical flaws... |
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Cost
of Job-Related Illnesses Exceeds Costs of All Cancers, Diabetes and Strokes
A new
NIOSH-funded study from J. Paul Leigh, a professor of public health sciences at the University of
California – Davis, determined that the cost of job-related injuries and illnesses is $250 billion,
which is $31 billion more than the cost of all cancers and $76 billion more than the cost of
diabetes... |
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Safety is My
Co-Priority
If you are operating under the impression that air show megastar Sean Tucker
confines his fancy maneuvers to his airplane, I'm here to tell you, he does not... |
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ARSA Congratulates Aviation Industry on Safest Decade
Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) Executive Vice President Christian Klein released the
following statement commending the aviation industry on its stellar safety record as outlined in a
recent Associated Press (AP) analysis... |
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Whooping
Cranes Grounded By FAA
Just before Christmas, Operation Migration and its flock of whooping
cranes were grounded on an attempt to migrate south for the winter... |
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Officials move ahead with plans
for Reno air races
The head of the Reno Air Races Association said Wednesday officials are
moving ahead with plans for this fall's competition despite a tragic crash at September's event that
killed 11 and injured more than 70... |
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Man charged in $630K fraud
involving FAA certifications
A 57-year-old Cartersville man has been charged with defrauding
a Dubai government agency of hundreds of thousands of dollars by delivering bogus FAA approvals for
aircraft modifications, federal prosecutors said Tuesday... |
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American carriers see safest decade ever
US-based airlines have just completed the country’s
safest ever decade for air travel. According to a recent study conducted by the Associated
Press, 153 people died in commercial aviation accidents over the last ten years, which amounts to
two lives for every 100 million passengers flown... |
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