Leaderboard

The most common kinds of incident across the archive, ranked by real count — and a few of the rarest.

This leaderboard is built entirely from the category tags already attached to every incident reconstruction in the archive — the same tags used to filter the Case Files page. Each reconstruction can carry more than one tag (a fuel-exhaustion crash in bad weather, for example, is tagged both Fuel and Weather), so the counts below add up to more than the total number of incidents. The ranking simply counts how often each tag appears across the current archive and updates as new incidents are added. The rarest section lists the two tags that appear least often, which tend to reflect event types the channel has covered infrequently rather than events that are inherently uncommon in aviation.

The weekly incident