Aviation safety data platform: accidents, incident reports and safety profiles for every aircraft, airline and airport.
FlightFinder (himaxym.com) is an aviation safety data platform: it compiles and cross-references accident, incident and hazard records from 130 sources, chiefly national investigation authorities, into one searchable, citable dataset organized by aircraft type, airline and airport. The public record is scattered across more than a hundred authorities and written for investigators. We compile it, explain it, and never dress an estimate up as a fact.
We publish counts from the public record — occurrences, fatal accidents, hull losses and their dates — and never a score or a grade for an airline or an aircraft type.
Our sources attribute only part of what they hold to a specific operator, and that gap is not evenly spread between carriers, so any formula over these counts would rank how well documented an airline or a type is as much as how safely it flies. A low count can mean a good record or a thin one. The counts are not adjusted for fleet size or hours flown, and none of them predicts a future flight. How each figure is built is on methodology.
No. FlightFinder is an aviation safety data platform: it compiles accident, incident and hazard records and organizes them by aircraft type, airline and airport. It does not follow a flight’s status or arrival time, and it does not sell tickets. “Check my flight” finds the aircraft type and airline behind a flight number and shows their safety record — not a live position or a fare.
How a safety data platform differs from a flight tracker and a fare search site
| Source | Covers | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| Aviation Safety Network + B3A (via Wikidata) | Worldwide accidents and hull losses | Weekly |
| NTSB CAROL | U.S. official investigations | Daily |
| Turbulence model (GFS winds → Ellrod index) | En-route turbulence forecast | Every 6 hours |
| FAA and the other national authorities listed in Attributions | Hazard registers, airworthiness directives, regional records | Varies by authority |
No. Every occurrence, every recommendation, and the methodology are open to everyone. FlightFinder Pro pays for volume, history and export — never for access to the record.
A new occurrence appears in the feed once the authority publishes it. Plain-language summaries may be machine-generated from the source record and pass automated publication checks. Those checks do not prove factual accuracy or personal review. Consult the official report for findings and our AI Content Policy for the limits of generation.
Rarely. Turbulence injuries happen overwhelmingly to people who are not belted in. It is discomfort, not typically danger — we publish the forecast so you can plan when to stay seated, not to alarm anyone.
FlightFinder is independently built, published, and edited by Denys Kolomiiets. FlightFinder is not owned by an airline, booking agency, or accident-investigation authority.
Our acquisition, validation, refresh, and correction practices are documented in the methodology and Editorial Standards. FlightFinder is built on open-source software and public datasets used under their respective licenses (ODbL for adsb.lol, CC0/CC-BY-SA for Wikidata, public domain for NTSB) — see Attributions.
Found an error in a record? Write to [email protected] with the event date and registration — we publish corrections on the event page itself. Editorial questions and press enquiries use the same address.
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