A dataset containing details of 66,558 laser incidents
Format
A data frame with 66,558 rows and 9 variables:
- date_time
date and time of incident
- flight_id
flight identification as character, i.e. "AAL2305"
- aircraft
aircraft type, i.e. "B737"
- altitude
altitude of aircraft in feet
- airport
three digit FAA airport identifier
- laser_color
laser color: blue, green, purple, red, white or multi
- injury
injury reported: yes or no
- city
nearest city when incident occurred
- state
state when incident occurred
Details
Observations that were missing data were omitted. Of the original 69,337 incidents, 66,558 were retained. Altitude contained one observation of 1.3 million feet and it was omitted as an data entry error and classified as an outlier. The altitude record for a fixed-wing, manned aircraft is far less than 1.3 million. Date and time were combined into a single column.