About the FlightFinder team

The founder and editor behind FlightFinder — published datasets, papers and code.

Denys Kolomiiets is the founder and primary editor of FlightFinder. He researches and curates the airport, route, airline, and aircraft data published on this site, combining community datasets with custom acquisition pipelines, and aggregates the safety corpus from official accident-investigation records.

He publishes the underlying aggregates as open, citable datasets and the acquisition code as open source, so that the numbers on this site can be checked against something other than this site.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3212-3251 · Code: github.com/disclaimer8 · Contact: [email protected].

Preprints and papers

Published datasets — Zenodo

  • Aviation Safety Occurrences, 1902–2026: 223,623 records consolidated from 124 official accident-investigation authorities 10.5281/zenodo.22057962
  • Wildlife Strikes on Civil Aircraft in the United States, 1990-2026 (aggregated FAA Wildlife Strike Database) 10.5281/zenodo.21347859
  • Laser Strikes on Aircraft Reported to the FAA, United States, 2021-2025 (by year, state, and city) 10.5281/zenodo.21347861
  • Drone (UAS) Sightings Reported by Pilots to the FAA, United States, 2019-2026 (by year, state, and city) 10.5281/zenodo.21347863
  • Runway Incursions at U.S. Airports, 2001-2026 (FAA ASIAS: event-level extract and aggregates) 10.5281/zenodo.21611388
  • US Airline On-Time Performance and Delay Causes, 1987-2026 (BTS, aggregated) 10.5281/zenodo.21611360
  • U.S. Air Traffic by Airport and Carrier, 1990-2026 (BTS T-100, aggregated) 10.5281/zenodo.21611390
  • NTSB Aviation Safety Recommendations, 1967-2026 (CAROL, full text and status) 10.5281/zenodo.21611384

Published datasets — Figshare

All datasets above are released under CC BY 4.0. Mirrors of the same aggregates are on Hugging Face and Kaggle; the DOI is the citable record.

Code

Profiles

ORCID 0000-0003-3212-3251 · GitHub · Hugging Face · Kaggle · LinkedIn

Editorial policy

Every page on FlightFinder cites its underlying data source on our methodology page. We do not generate facts with AI; numerical claims (route counts, distances, flight durations) come from named datasets we cross-validate weekly.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I check the safety record of an aircraft or airline?

Type an aircraft model, airline, airport or tail number into the search box — FlightFinder opens its safety profile with accident history, incident reports and hazard data from public sources.

Where does the safety data come from?

Accident records come from 130 sources — investigation boards such as the NTSB, AAIB, BEA and MAK, plus compilers such as the Aviation Safety Network and Wikidata — normalized into one database with a citable DOI. NASA ASRS incident reports, FAA wildlife-strike, laser-strike and runway-incursion data, and FAA and EASA airworthiness directives are separate datasets on the site. The methodology and full source list are published.