Ask FlightFinder

Questions answered from our safety records, with sources — never a guess.

Ask FlightFinder answers questions about aviation accidents, incidents, and official safety recommendations — in plain language, drawn only from our own merged safety records: NTSB, ASRS, EASA, and 70+ other official investigation sources.

Answers come only from our safety records, with sources you can check yourself. If our records don't cover a question, we say so honestly instead of guessing. This is not safety advice.

How it works

  1. Retrieval — your question is matched against the accident, incident, and safety-recommendation records in our database.
  2. Grounded answer — if there's enough relevant data, we generate a plain-language answer that sticks to what the records actually say. If retrieval comes back weak, we tell you we don't have the data instead of inventing an answer.
  3. Citations — every answer links back to the specific records it's drawn from, numbered inline, so you can verify it yourself.

Example questions

  • How many 737 MAX accidents are in the database?
  • What safety recommendations came from the Colgan Air crash?
  • Which aircraft family has the most recorded bird strikes?
  • What caused the Boeing 787 battery incidents?
  • Are there any NTSB recommendations about runway incursions?
  • What incidents have been reported for the Airbus A320?

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Frequently asked questions

How do I search flights by aircraft type on FlightFinder?

Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.

Which aircraft types can I filter by?

We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.

Is FlightFinder free to use?

Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.

Where does the route data come from?

Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.