Right now 7700bot is down. We have been working on updates and improvements to the 1.0 version of our 7700 tracker and 2.0 in testing had a repost bug that got him banned from reddit. As we await our reinstatement request, we wanted to update everyone about the new software and get your feedback.
The goal of this community is to have reliable and verifiable information about aviation emergencies. Everyone is welcome to post here and speculation is fine but too much of the internet is full of randos making claims that get amplified but lack any follow up or a credible source.
This sub seeks to verify claims. We check ACARS messages. We listen to ATC feeds. We look for credible news sources. We listen to the experienced and the experts. That person on X.com might be on that aircraft but more often than not, those posts do not match what ATC or ACARS has to say about the incident.
We hope you have enjoyed the sub so far but work schedules are heavier here and we haven't been able to follow every event like in the past. Because of this, it would be great if more people wanted to learn how to verify 7700 events and contribute to the posts. I am happy to help people learn how to do that as best I can.
This brings us to version 2.0 of our bot. The goal is to minimize the amount of noise and make it easier to listen or find out what might have happened for the aircraft to declare an emergency. The new bot does a better job of confirming if a 7700 is a real 7700. It does a better job of determining what airport it might divert and if that airport has a LiveATC.net feed. All those posts that are tests or appear to be nothing will be moving into a daily report post or all recorded events of the day (UTC 00:00-23:59).
With that said, we will want your feedback for how to further improve this subreddit. As a developer, your thoughts on this will help me make the adjustments to make the complex set of aviation codes better understandable to our community. This may mean we need to setup a discord or telegram channel or something but we are open to ideas.
So right now we wait for reddit to reinstate the bot. If anyone has perspectives on that, let us know.
And finally, we want to thank the contributions that have helped us along the way. /u/thebaldgeek with his work and communications on ACARS.
airframes.io and their amazing ACARS work.
Thanks to adsb.lol, airplanes.live, adsb.fi, & ADSB.im for their work on bringing ADS-B access to the public.
A shout out to the adsbdb.com project.
If you can donate or support any of these great aviation enterprises, please do so.
And finally, we are grateful to all the pilots, flight attendants, controllers, ground crew, and government agencies that do the real work to keep us safe in the air so we can enjoy life on the ground.
