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Aviation Insurance

Aperçu

An aircraft is one of the most expensive machines a business can own, it carries hundreds of lives at once, and it can fall on a city it has never visited. No single insurer in Nigeria, or anywhere else, could pay for all of that alone. Aviation insurance is the answer the market built: a bundle of covers that protects the aircraft, its passengers and everyone on the ground, backed by pools and reinsurers who spread one catastrophe across the whole world.

In this lesson you will meet the three covers at the heart of every aviation programme, learn the risks that make this class unlike any other, see how the Chicago and Montreal Conventions and Nigerian law shape what an airline must buy before it may fly, and understand exactly why these risks are almost always reinsured or placed with a pool. You will work through the calculations an examiner can build from a single air crash.

Objectifs

  1. Identify the types of aviation insurance policy and the cover each provides
  2. Describe the risks peculiar to aviation insurance
  3. Explain the effect of international regulation on aviation insurance
  4. Explain why aviation risks are commonly re-insured or placed with a pool

Carte mentale

Ce theme est schematise pour montrer comment les idees se relient.

Cartes memoire

Entrainement rapide sur les faits evalues dans ce theme.

Note de cours

A wide bodied jet leaving Lagos may be worth more than ₦20,000,000,000. On board sit three hundred passengers, each of whom the airline is bound by law to protect. If that aircraft comes down, three losses crystallise in the same instant: the machine itself, every passenger on it, and whatever it strikes on the ground. One event, three enormous bills, all payable at once. Aviation insurance exists to answer that single frightening possibility, and the way it is built, split into covers, then shared through pools and reinsurers, follows directly from it. Understand the crash and you understand the whole class.

Évaluation de la leçon

Félicitations, vous avez terminé la leçon sur Aviation Insurance. Maintenant que vous avez exploré le concepts et idées clés, il est temps de mettre vos connaissances à lépreuve. Cette section propose une variété de pratiques des questions conçues pour renforcer votre compréhension et vous aider à évaluer votre compréhension de la matière.

Vous rencontrerez un mélange de types de questions, y compris des questions à choix multiple, des questions à réponse courte et des questions de rédaction. Chaque question est soigneusement conçue pour évaluer différents aspects de vos connaissances et de vos compétences en pensée critique.

Utilisez cette section d'évaluation comme une occasion de renforcer votre compréhension du sujet et d'identifier les domaines où vous pourriez avoir besoin d'étudier davantage. Ne soyez pas découragé par les défis que vous rencontrez ; considérez-les plutôt comme des opportunités de croissance et d'amélioration.

  1. Under an aviation insurance programme, loss of or damage to the aircraft itself is met by the: A. Passenger liability cover B. Hull cover C. Third-party liability cover D. Products liability cover Answer: B
  2. Goods carried by air are normally insured under a: A. Hull policy B. Hull war policy C. Marine cargo policy D. Passenger liability policy Answer: C
  3. The international convention that fixes an airline's liability to international passengers and has been adopted into Nigerian law through the Civil Aviation Act is the: A. Chicago Convention B. Rome Convention C. Montreal Convention D. Geneva Convention Answer: C
  4. An aircraft hull worth 10,000,000,000 naira is co-insured, the leading insurer taking a 20 per cent line. On a total loss the leading insurer pays: A. 10,000,000,000 naira B. 8,000,000,000 naira C. 5,000,000,000 naira D. 2,000,000,000 naira Answer: D
  5. Aviation risks are commonly reinsured chiefly because: A. premiums charged are very small B. a single event can concentrate hull, passenger and third-party losses together C. aircraft almost never suffer accidents D. the law forbids insurers from keeping any aviation risk Answer: B

Questions de révision

Vous vous demandez à quoi ressemblent les questions passées sur ce sujet ? Voici plusieurs questions sur Aviation Insurance des années précédentes.

Question 1 Rapport

  • Explain aviation insurance.
  • List and explain three covers provided by aviation insurance.
  • technical feasibility;
  • economic feasibility.
Détails de la réponse

Meaning of aviation insurance

Aviation insurance is the class of insurance that provides cover against the risks associated with the operation, ownership and use of aircraft. It indemnifies the insured against loss of or damage to the aircraft itself and against legal liabilities arising from its operation, such as injury to passengers and damage to third party persons and property on the ground or in the air.

Three covers provided by aviation insurance

  1. Aircraft hull insurance: This covers accidental physical loss of or damage to the aircraft (the fuselage, wings, engines and equipment) whether the aircraft is in flight, taxiing or on the ground. It indemnifies the owner for repair or the value of the aircraft.
  2. Passenger liability insurance: This covers the operator's legal liability for death of or bodily injury to fare-paying passengers, and often for loss of or damage to their baggage, arising out of an accident during the flight.
  3. Third party (public) liability insurance: This covers the operator's legal liability for death, injury or property damage caused to third parties who are not on board the aircraft, for example persons and property on the ground struck by a crashing aircraft.