Frequently asked questions about SeyAero
How SeyAero analyses aircraft accidents and incidents: what data it needs, which aircraft it models, how hypotheses are ranked, how evidence is protected, and what it will not do.
What is SeyAero?
SeyAero is an aviation occurrence investigation platform. It ingests recorder data, tracks, weather, maintenance history, crew records, photographs and statements, places them on one synchronised timeline, reconstructs the flight against the physics of the specific airframe, ranks the surviving explanations by the evidence held, and produces an ICAO Annex 13 report structure with a full evidence chain.
Who uses it?
Airlines and operators, civil aviation authorities and state safety bodies, state accident investigation bureaus, manufacturers, insurers and legal teams working an occurrence file.
What data does it need to be useful?
It works with whatever exists. A full FDR and CVR set gives the strongest reconstruction, but the platform is built to work through a recorder blackout using documentary and physical evidence: fuelling records, load sheets, maintenance history, wreckage distribution, injury pattern and witness accounts. Where a governing measurement is missing, the platform says so instead of guessing.
Which aircraft types are modelled?
Transport jets, regional jets, turboprops including propeller-specific effects, business jets, helicopters and light piston aircraft. Coverage is weaker for seaplanes, tiltrotors, gliders, balloons, airships, large uncrewed aircraft and military types, and the platform states that limitation on the case rather than hiding it.
What occurrence types does it model?
Loss of control, stall, engine and propeller failure, icing, controlled flight into terrain, midair conflict, high-energy dive, structural breakup, fire, decompression, runway and takeoff performance, ditching, fuel exhaustion and contamination, hypoxia and slow pressurisation loss, crew incapacitation, loading and centre of gravity errors, ground and ramp accidents, turbulence injury without airframe damage, navigation interference and jamming, post-crash fire survivability, and wake turbulence encounters.
How are competing causes ranked?
Each hypothesis is tested against the physics of the airframe and against the evidence actually held. A hypothesis that the evidence contradicts is eliminated and the contradiction is named. A hypothesis that nothing in the file can decide either way stays open. The platform will refuse to state a probable cause when the evidence cannot carry one.
Does it determine probable cause?
No. Its output is advisory throughout. Findings and causes remain the sole responsibility of the investigating authority under ICAO Annex 13, Chapter 5.
How accurate is it?
It has been run as a blind reconstruction against twelve historical accidents using only what was publicly observable at the time, with the results published on the validation page. Predictions can also be sealed and timestamped before wreckage recovery, so accuracy on live cases is checkable after the fact rather than claimed.
How is case material protected?
Each organisation works in its own isolated workspace with row-level access control, a complete audit trail over every record and edit, independent peer review with self-approval structurally prevented, and no use of customer case data for model training.
What does it cost?
Pricing runs by band, from single-inquiry access to whole-programme licensing for authorities. Nigerian aviation organisations have a two-year no-cost access programme and United Kingdom organisations a twelve-month one.
How long does it take to get started?
There is nothing to install. Register, open a case, write a free account of what happened, and the platform drafts the summary and then guides evidence collection class by class, showing where each item goes.