✈️ NTSB Aviation Accident Scraper

🚀 Scrape 178,000+ transportation accident records from the NTSB CAROL database with injury levels, aircraft details, locations, probable cause, and investigation status. Filter by mode, city, severity, and date range.

The National Transportation Safety Board investigates every civil aviation accident in the United States, plus significant incidents in highway, marine, pipeline, and railroad transportation. This Actor queries the NTSB's CAROL database and returns structured records with event dates, locations, injury severity, aircraft make and model, registration numbers, investigation status, probable cause findings, and more. You can filter by transportation mode, city, injury level, registration number, and date range.

Safety researchers studying crash patterns, insurance professionals assessing risk, journalists investigating incidents, and aviation consultants tracking NTSB findings all need this data in a structured format. Instead of clicking through individual case pages, you get a clean dataset with hundreds or thousands of records in one run.

Target	NTSB CAROL Database
Use Cases	Safety research, insurance risk analysis, aviation incident investigation, regulatory monitoring

📋 What it does

• ✈️ Accident records. Event dates, locations, injury levels, investigation status, and probable cause findings from 178,000+ NTSB records.
• 🔧 Aircraft details. Make, model, registration number (N-number), and operator information for aviation incidents.
• 🏥 Injury data. Highest injury severity for each accident: fatal, serious, minor, or none.
• 🚂 Multiple modes. Search across Aviation, Highway, Marine, Pipeline, and Railroad investigations.
• 📅 Date and location filtering. Narrow results by city, injury level, registration number, and date range.

Each record includes the event date, city, state, country, highest injury level, transportation mode, aircraft make and model, registration number, report status, probable cause, NTSB entry ID, and scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: The NTSB CAROL web interface requires manual clicking through individual case pages. This Actor collects thousands of structured records in seconds, ready for analysis in spreadsheets, databases, or dashboards.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: City, CompletionStatus, Country, EventDate, EventType, HasSafetyRec, HighestInjuryLevel, InjuryOnboardCount, InjuryOngroundCount, Mode, N#, NtsbNo, OriginalPublishedDate, ReportDate, ReportType, scrapedAt, State, VehicleMake, VehicleModel. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The NTSB CAROL database contains 178,000+ records spanning decades. Dates use MM/DD/YYYY format. The scraper processes about 100 records per second.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NTSB Aviation Accident Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose a transportation mode, apply filters, and set your max items.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) or any government agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.

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