Observed arrival · 2026-08-24
Dark Towers Tracks the Hours When Airports Go Quiet
An aviation-safety project records airline flights and reported close approaches at airports operating without an air-traffic controller on duty.
Field notes
Dark Towers organizes a rolling record of flights taking place while airport control towers are closed or absent, with separate counts for passenger-airline operations and close approaches. The homepage identifies 502 flights over the last 30 days, including 200 flown by passenger airlines, and reports 27 approaches below its stated separation standard. A Method section is linked, but the available extract does not show the underlying data source or detection procedure.
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