Safety incidents

67190 events · last 30 days

SkyMeter detected 67,190 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 30 days, with Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD) recording the most (2,238). The breakdown: 21,363 returns to field, 15,175 unstable approaches, 2,564 go-arounds, 616 stall warnings, 441 speed exceedances, and 258 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
67,190
last 30 days
GO-AROUNDS
2,564
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
258
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
15,175
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
21,363
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
156
7500: 2 · 7600: 30 · 7700: 124

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 67,190
Go-arounds 2,564 6%
Rejected TO 258 1%
Unstable approach 15,175 38%
Return to field 21,363 54%
Hijack (7500) 2 0%
Lost comms (7600) 30 0%
Emergency (7700) 124 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.

Recent incidents

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17:40
08/19/2026
Unstable approach
2,021ft187kt060°/6kt G31
MADCAT2
68-8129T38
18:59
08/14/2026
Unstable approach
2,176ft194kt140°/10kt
MADCAT9
66-8352T38
16:45
08/10/2026
Unstable approach
2,398ft205kt230°/10kt
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