What it can do

Search Accidents: Search the merged aviation-accident corpus (80+ official agencies, occurrence-level dedup). Filters: aircraft family slug (e.g. "boeing-737"), ISO alpha-2 country, occurrence type, o

Get Accident: Fetch one occurrence by its FlightFinder id, with source-attribution links and references to the narratives available for it.

Get Narrative: Fetch an investigation narrative by (source, case id). Open-licensed sources return full text; others return a ≤300-char excerpt plus a source_url deep link (per-source licensing policy

Read-only access to a merged aviation-safety corpus: 164,068 accident narratives aggregated from 128 official investigation authorities — the NTSB, ATSB, AAIB, BEA, MAK and dozens of national agencies — deduplicated into one occurrence-level dataset with derived aircraft-family analytics.

Also included, as US-government public-domain datasets: FAA wildlife strikes (351,016 records, 1990–2026), FAA reported laser incidents (54,722) and FAA drone sightings, each with global aggregates plus per-airport, per-species and per-US-state breakdowns. Airport reference data comes from OurAirports (CC0).

No key, no configuration. Every tool answers at the keyless tier (100 requests/day/IP); a free key at himaxym.com/developers raises that to 1,000/day.

Tools: search_accidents, get_accident, get_narrative, aircraft_safety, list_sources, airport_reference, wildlife_strikes, laser_incidents, drone_sightings.

Licensing: facts and merged/derived data are always returned in full. Narrative text is full for open-licensed sources (CC, OGL, Licence Ouverte/Etalab, public domain) and an ~300-character excerpt plus a deep link otherwise — list_sources carries the policy per source. Every record carries its source, attribution and licence; show them when you repeat anything.

FlightFinder Aviation Safety Data

What it can do

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search_accidents	Search the merged aviation-accident corpus (80+ official agencies, occurrence-level dedup). Filters: aircraft family slug (e.g. "boeing-737"), ISO alpha-2 country, occurrence type, operator substring, date range (from/to as YYYY-MM-DD), and fatal-only. Returns a page of occurrences with source-attribution links and a next_cursor for pagination.
get_accident	Fetch one occurrence by its FlightFinder id, with source-attribution links and references to the narratives available for it.
get_narrative	Fetch an investigation narrative by (source, case id). Open-licensed sources return full text; others return a ≤300-char excerpt plus a source_url deep link (per-source licensing policy). id URL-encoding is handled for you — pass the raw case id.
aircraft_safety	Aggregate safety statistics for an aircraft family: total occurrences, hull losses, fatal accidents, total fatalities, and first/latest year.
list_sources	List every data source in the corpus with its license, homepage, narrative count, and republication policy (full vs excerpt).
airport_reference	Resolve an airport by ICAO ident or IATA code (OurAirports, CC0). Returns name, city, country, and coordinates.
wildlife_strikes	FAA National Wildlife Strike Database (US-government public domain). With no arguments: global totals, the full yearly series since 1990, and the leading airports, species and flight phases. Pass airport OR species for that breakdown. Slugs are lowercase and hyphenated (e.g. "kden", "mourning-dove").
laser_incidents	FAA Reported Laser Incidents — lasers aimed at aircraft (US-government public domain). With no arguments: national totals, injuries and the yearly series. Pass state OR airport for that breakdown, as a lowercase hyphenated slug.
drone_sightings	FAA UAS (drone) Sighting Reports filed by pilots and controllers (US-government public domain). With no arguments: national totals, the yearly series and the leading states and cities. Pass state for that breakdown, as a lowercase hyphenated slug.