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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'year'}) and 3 missing columns ({'last_year', 'state', 'first_year'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us/laser_strikes_by_year.csv (at revision 2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405), ['hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_by_state.csv', 'hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_by_year.csv', 'hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_top_cities.csv']
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1848, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 765, in write_table
self._write_table(pa_table, writer_batch_size=writer_batch_size)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 773, in _write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
...<3 lines>...
)
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
year: int64
total: int64
injuries: int64
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 602
to
{'state': Value('string'), 'total': Value('int64'), 'injuries': Value('int64'), 'first_year': Value('int64'), 'last_year': Value('int64')}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1369, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
builder, max_dataset_size_bytes=max_dataset_size_bytes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 948, in stream_convert_to_parquet
builder._prepare_split(split_generator=splits_generators[split], file_format="parquet")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1694, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
gen_kwargs=gen_kwargs, job_id=job_id, **_prepare_split_args
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
):
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1850, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
...<4 lines>...
)
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'year'}) and 3 missing columns ({'last_year', 'state', 'first_year'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us/laser_strikes_by_year.csv (at revision 2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405), ['hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_by_state.csv', 'hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_by_year.csv', 'hf://datasets/himaxym/faa-laser-strikes-us@2168d2e9d2bd143c52f0cef76cb9f979ae818405/laser_strikes_top_cities.csv']
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
state string | total int64 | injuries int64 | first_year int64 | last_year int64 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
California | 7,814 | 28 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Texas | 6,014 | 26 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Florida | 3,567 | 21 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Tennessee | 2,582 | 6 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Indiana | 2,486 | 7 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Illinois | 2,437 | 8 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Arizona | 2,352 | 8 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Washington | 2,283 | 4 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
New York | 1,843 | 8 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Georgia | 1,823 | 6 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Virginia | 1,657 | 6 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Colorado | 1,605 | 8 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
North Carolina | 1,320 | 15 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Ohio | 1,306 | 8 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Minnesota | 1,295 | 4 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
New Mexico | 1,277 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Pennsylvania | 1,254 | 6 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Utah | 1,001 | 9 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Oregon | 990 | 4 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Nevada | 905 | 3 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Kentucky | 874 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Missouri | 829 | 4 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Hawaii | 801 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Kansas | 736 | 5 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
New Hampshire | 638 | 7 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Michigan | 567 | 3 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
South Carolina | 548 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Puerto Rico | 541 | 6 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Oklahoma | 532 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Louisiana | 523 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
District of Columbia | 417 | 7 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Alabama | 398 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Arkansas | 351 | 3 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Massachusetts | 297 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
New Jersey | 284 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Idaho | 268 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Wisconsin | 257 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Mississippi | 226 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Iowa | 187 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
West Virginia | 151 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Nebraska | 143 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Montana | 137 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Connecticut | 111 | 5 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Maine | 110 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Rhode Island | 102 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
North Dakota | 100 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Alaska | 97 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Maryland | 71 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
South Dakota | 70 | 1 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Vermont | 50 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Guam | 37 | 2 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Delaware | 30 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Wyoming | 9 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,025 |
Saipan, CNMI | 4 | 0 | 2,023 | 2,023 |
Virgin Islands | 3 | 0 | 2,021 | 2,022 |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2,024 | 2,024 |
null | 9,723 | 47 | null | null |
null | 9,457 | 34 | null | null |
null | 13,304 | 35 | null | null |
null | 12,840 | 121 | null | null |
null | 10,993 | 10 | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
California | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Texas | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Florida | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Tennessee | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
Indiana | null | null | null | null |
End of preview.
Laser Strikes on Aircraft Reported to the FAA, 2021-2025 (by year, state, city)
Aggregated from FAA laser-strike reports (56,317 reports, 2021-2025), compiled by FlightFinder. Files: reports by year (with crew injuries), by state, and top cities per state. Fun fact hiding in the data: the top "city" in America is Mather, CA - a Sacramento suburb - an artifact of how the FAA fills the city field (see https://himaxym.com/stories/laser-strike-capital).
Corrected 2026-09-09. The first release was built from a preliminary FAA workbook for 2022 that the agency has since replaced: 2022 was 7,863 reports and is 9,457. One 2025 row whose Excel date serial was corrupt had been dropped and is now kept (10,992 -> 10,993). The total moves from 54,722 to 56,317 reports and from 243 to 247 crew injuries; no other year changed. Every year now matches the FAA published total exactly. Source workbooks with SHA-256 checksums are archived at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.33095582.
Interactive version with per-record drill-down: https://himaxym.com/safety/laser-strikes
Also published on Zenodo (same data, citable): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21347862
Source data: U.S. government work (public domain). Compilation: CC BY 4.0 — please attribute "FlightFinder (himaxym.com)". Counts represent FAA reports, not independently verified incidents.
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