Safety incidents

52384 events · last 30 days

SkyMeter detected 52,384 flight safety events across the global tracked fleet in the last 30 days, with Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD) recording the most (2,664). The breakdown: 20,062 returns to field, 10,755 unstable approaches, 1,782 go-arounds, 538 stall warnings, 359 speed exceedances, and 152 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
52,384
last 30 days
GO-AROUNDS
1,782
missed approach
REJECTED TAKEOFFS
152
aborted on roll
UNSTABLE APPROACH
10,755
stability flag
RETURN TO FIELD
20,062
commercial · dep=arr
EMERGENCY SQUAWKS
127
7500: 1 · 7600: 36 · 7700: 90

Breakdown by type

Share of total events

TOTAL 52,384
Go-arounds 1,782 5%
Rejected TO 152 0%
Unstable approach 10,755 33%
Return to field 20,062 61%
Hijack (7500) 1 0%
Lost comms (7600) 36 0%
Emergency (7700) 90 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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