Safety incidents

17318 events · last 7 days

SkyMeter detected 17,318 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 7 days, with Seattle Tacoma International Airport (KSEA) recording the most (536). The breakdown: 5,364 returns to field, 4,043 unstable approaches, 663 go-arounds, 164 stall warnings, 137 speed exceedances, and 66 rejected takeoffs. SkyMeter classifies these events from raw ADS-B trace data using deterministic detectors: go-around from altitude / vertical-speed reversals after final approach, unstable approach from gate-by-gate stability scoring against per-runway statistical envelopes, and stall / overspeed from broadcast IAS / Mach against per-type speed envelopes. Counts reflect detected events, not adjudicated incidents.

TOTAL
17,318
last 7 days
GO-AROUNDS
663
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
66
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
4,043
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
5,364
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
43
7500: 0 · 7600: 10 · 7700: 33

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 17,318
Go-arounds 663 7%
Rejected TO 66 1%
Unstable approach 4,043 40%
Return to field 5,364 53%
Lost comms (7600) 10 0%
Emergency (7700) 33 0%

Detection is complicated. ADS-B is imperfect. Gaps, ghost signals, coverage dead zones, missing airport metadata, training patterns, parallel-runway activity, and unfamiliar aircraft types all create false positives. These are signals worth reviewing, not official incident reports.

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