Friday, March 26, 2010

Another NTSB Aviation Accident Feed

As an experiment, here is an RSS feed of NTSB aviation accident reports. Some other feeds are available, but I wanted to experiment with integrating other information such as weather and maps.

Do not rely on this service. It is experimental. The NTSB is the authoritative source.

When this service can find historical weather for a report, the feed links to that weather. The current source for that historical weather is Weather Underground.





The feed also tries to link to a map of the area, a search for make/model, and the FlightAware page for the plane.

Here's a clip from the feed:





The entry links to the historical METAR's:



Also the historical radar and track:




Note: The feed can't always find the right links -- especially for international registrations and experimental aircraft.