Safety incidents

49733 events · last 30 days

SkyMeter detected 49,733 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 30 days, with Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD) recording the most (2,477). The breakdown: 19,225 returns to field, 10,189 unstable approaches, 1,658 go-arounds, 517 stall warnings, 349 speed exceedances, and 145 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
49,733
last 30 days
GO-AROUNDS
1,658
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
145
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
10,189
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
19,225
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
123
7500: 1 · 7600: 35 · 7700: 87

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 49,733
Go-arounds 1,658 5%
Rejected TO 145 0%
Unstable approach 10,189 33%
Return to field 19,225 61%
Hijack (7500) 1 0%
Lost comms (7600) 35 0%
Emergency (7700) 87 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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