Aviation Incident and Accident Report Summaries from Canada, 53,770 Records

53,770 aviation occurrence summaries from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, spanning an 80-year period. The dataset was used to train and evaluate machine learning classifiers for automated report triage. It was authored by Sawera Qureshi and last updated on 2026-05-21.

Use Cases

• Automated triage of aviation safety reports based on textual summaries
• Identification of potentially mislabeled incident or accident reports for expert review
• Support for downstream severity assessment pipelines in safety management

Strengths

• 53,770 records provide a substantial corpus for model training
• Covers an 80-year historical period for longitudinal analysis
• Reported classification accuracy of 98.06% with an SVM model suggests strong signal in the text

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Canadian source

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official aviation occurrence reports

Time Range

Covers an 80-year period (specific years not provided)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 17:44:29; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada