Asrs Search
asrs_searchSearch NASA ASRS (Aviation Safety Reporting System) de-identified aviation safety incident reports by keyword, with optional filters. Answers "find reports about runway incursions", "ASRS reports mentioning bird strikes near a given airport", "fatigue reports involving commuter flight crews". Matches the query against each report's narrative, synopsis, topic and coded anomaly. Returns, per report, the ACN (Accession Number), date, airport/state, aircraft, flight phase, synopsis and a narrative excerpt — call asrs_report with the ACN for the full narrative. Covers NASA's thirty standing curated Report Sets (up to 50 reports each on a fixed safety topic, such as runway incursions, CFIT, bird strikes, NMACs, icing, fatigue), not NASA's full database — call asrs_topics to see which topics and date ranges are covered before concluding a topic has no reports.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Max reports to return (default 50, max 200). | |
| phase | No | Filter by flight phase substring, e.g. "taxi", "landing", "initial approach", "cruise". | |
| query | No | Keyword(s) to search for in the report narrative, synopsis, topic and coded anomaly, e.g. "runway incursion", "bird strike", "fatigue". Multiple words require ALL of them to appear (not necessarily adjacent). | |
| date_to | No | Only include reports up to this year-month, e.g. "2025-01". | |
| aircraft | No | Filter by aircraft/operator category substring, e.g. "widebody", "commercial fixed wing", "helicopter". | |
| date_from | No | Only include reports from this year-month or later, e.g. "2024-06" or "2024". Reports are dated by the month ASRS recorded them. |