This review and survey of 2018 SDR data was an effort to gain some understanding of under-reporting in the FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting (SDR) system records by cross-checking media reports of “diversion/s, emergency landing/s, returns” to the FAA’s Query website (1) and is easily performed by anyone with internet access.

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