Safety incidents

16124 events · last 7 days

SkyMeter detected 16,124 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 7 days, with Seattle Tacoma International Airport (KSEA) recording the most (562). The breakdown: 4,949 returns to field, 3,815 unstable approaches, 622 go-arounds, 144 stall warnings, 140 speed exceedances, and 58 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
16,124
last 7 days
GO-AROUNDS
622
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
58
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
3,815
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
4,949
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
39
7500: 0 · 7600: 9 · 7700: 30

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 16,124
Go-arounds 622 7%
Rejected TO 58 1%
Unstable approach 3,815 40%
Return to field 4,949 52%
Lost comms (7600) 9 0%
Emergency (7700) 30 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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