NTSB CAROL accident and incident monitoring, matched to your aircraft models
Daily alerts when a new accident or incident record involving an aircraft type you support is published in NTSB's CAROL database — real-world situational awareness, straight from the investigation record, with a direct link to the official case report.
What NTSB CAROL actually contains
CAROL is the NTSB's own public accident and incident database — the same search tool investigators, journalists, and the public use directly. Each record covers a real investigation: what happened, which aircraft was involved, and — once available — the NTSB's own generated case report PDF. A single event can involve more than one aircraft (a near-miss between two airplanes, for example), and each aircraft gets its own record in your report.
We check CAROL every weekday, filtered on the record's real publication date — not when the underlying accident happened — so a report you get today reflects what NTSB actually made public today, not a backlog of older cases resurfacing.
Why CAROL is different from the other sources
It's the least part-specific source — and depending on what you're watching for, that's either a real limitation or exactly the level of detail you actually need.
Aircraft-level, not part-level
CAROL records rarely name a specific part number. Most real matches land at Tier 3 — aircraft model match only — rather than a Tier 1 hit on one of your watchlist keywords or part numbers.
Exactly the fit for aircraft-focused watching
If you're a flight school, lessor, or owner tracking by aircraft type rather than part number, aircraft-level *is* the match you want — CAROL (alongside our FAA preliminary accident/incident source) is exactly the level of detail built for you, not a fallback.
For parts suppliers, it's expected to be sparse
Your report says this explicitly for CAROL, so a sparse Tier 1/Tier 2 section reads as normal for this source if you're watching by part number — not as a sign that matching missed something.
How this actually works
No AI, no black box — a straightforward rule-based match against data you can verify yourself.
You tell us what to watch
Aircraft models are what drive CAROL matches — add whatever types you support, alongside any keywords or ATA chapters you also want covered.
We check CAROL every weekday
Against NTSB's own redesigned public search backend, filtered on real publication date, not event date.
A real case report, linked
Each match links to the actual NTSB-generated report PDF for that case — not a summary, the real document.
One daily email, tiered honestly
Matches are labeled by tier, so an aircraft-only match never gets confused with an exact part hit.
Know when your aircraft types show up in a new NTSB record
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