Safety incidents

68818 events · last 30 days

SkyMeter detected 68,818 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 30 days, with Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD) recording the most (2,456). The breakdown: 21,543 returns to field, 15,459 unstable approaches, 2,649 go-arounds, 619 stall warnings, 460 speed exceedances, and 261 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
68,818
last 30 days
GO-AROUNDS
2,649
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
261
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
15,459
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
21,543
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
159
7500: 2 · 7600: 31 · 7700: 126

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 68,818
Go-arounds 2,649 7%
Rejected TO 261 1%
Unstable approach 15,459 39%
Return to field 21,543 54%
Hijack (7500) 2 0%
Lost comms (7600) 31 0%
Emergency (7700) 126 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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01:32
08/21/2026
Unstable approach
1,210ft155kt120°/5kt
02:03
08/10/2026
Unstable approach
1,196ft173kt290°/11kt
07:55
08/04/2026
Unstable approach
1,200ft157kt280°/9kt
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