Image to right: The Morning Report is a data-intensive airline safety and information tool that crunches massive amounts of data overnight from thousands of airline flights, providing a daily insightful report of overall flight patterns and subtle flight characteristics for air traffic and flight personnel.

If you're reading this Morning Report over your morning cup of coffee, you're looking at analysis of data from any unusual flights of the previous day. You're looking for highlights of safety issues and any patterns that could lead to incidents or accidents.

The Morning Report is a data cruncher. Analyzing gigabytes of data from thousands of flights by numerous airlines, the system provides a daily "big picture" view of all aspects of every flight.

Doing its work over night, The Morning Report provides airline quality assurance personnel with a list of atypical flights from the previous day in an easy tabular format, highlighting the most extreme five percent. These flights may include groups of flights experiencing an operational problem or unique situations encountered by single flights. Highlighted flights are examined by flight operations quality assurance analysts to determine whether the flights represent operational problems. No special training in statistics is required to understand the report, and results can be shared immediately with the aviation community.

The Morning Report Team
NASA Ames Research Center, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Battelle Memorial Institute, Flight Safety Consultants, ProWorks Corporation