Aircraft emergencies, tracked live — by aircraft type
Whenever an aircraft anywhere in the world squawks 7700 — the transponder code for a general emergency — our tracker logs it within a minute, with the aircraft's type, callsign, and position. This page aggregates that archive by aircraft type. …
Read this before the table. These are raw observed counts, not safety rates. Common types (A320 and 737 families) top any such list simply because they operate the most flights. A 7700 squawk usually means a precautionary diversion — a sick passenger, a warning light — not an accident. We publish the observation window because the archive is young and grows daily; treat small differences as noise.
Emergency squawks by aircraft type
Aircraft type
Events
Flights observed*
≈ Rate*
Last seen
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*Flight volume is estimated from published schedules at the 121 airports we track, scaled to the archive window; routes listing several aircraft types are split evenly between them. Emergencies are logged worldwide, so these ratios understate flights and OVERSTATE rates — read them as rough context, never as safety statistics. General-aviation and military types show no flight count because they don't fly published schedules.
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How is this data collected?
A watcher polls global ADS-B coverage (via adsb.lol) every minute for aircraft squawking 7700 and archives each event once — type, registration, callsign, first/last position. Collection began on the date shown above and runs continuously; there is no retroactive backfill, so the archive only grows forward. Live emergencies appear on the interactive map as they happen.