Okay.
So this is a pilot judgment situation where the pilot took the wrong decision.
Let's look at this scenario, which shows an air show in Dubai.
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This accident relates to pilot situational awareness, where they did not know how close they were. When they're doing formation flying, this is part of the training. You have to know how far you are. There have to be devices to let you know. This could have been avoided had appropriate action been taken.
If you look at the world data shown here, you can see the pattern of trends. The pilot's judgment for action comes on top worldwide, even in Canada. For the Canadian part of this study, Canada has been put in here. The pilot's judgment of action comes on top; then there are data issues.
Internationally, all the accidents studied have the same trend. On the mitigation strategies, again, training and instruction come out as the topmost requirement as a mitigation device for the simulator-based training, and the implementation of safety management systems comes out on top.
The U.S. studies resulted in these recommendations: the safety management systems; simulator training; systems and equipment to enhance pilot judgment action and situational awareness; data-based information for accident recovery; maintenance; regulatory recommendations; and infrastructure.
One thing is very important here. You can see that 85% of the North American fleet is made up of small operators with five aircraft and below. That's where most of the accidents are. It's not in the big operators like CHL, CHC, Bristol and PHI; it's the small ones. Of the fleet, 85% are the small operators, and they are not tuned in yet to a structured safety process, or in other words, implementation of safety management systems, training, and all that. We need to reach them and make things happen.
I will skim through this fast because of time. This chart shows a decrease from 2006 right now; this is U.S. data. It shows that we started off with 9.3 per hundred thousand flight hours. Our goal is 80%--down 1.9--and over the years, we are coming down. From the 2009 data you can see substantial decreases in the U.S. This chart shows the worldwide average. We started off there and we wanted to go down to 1.9. There is a decrease. That's the trend being shown.
Whether this is due to anything we're doing, we don't know, but at least we are talking and people are listening, and that's having an impact. We haven't started implementing our strategies yet, so we should see more changes when things are implemented.
The Canadian data is superimposed here on this chart and shows Canada being above the world average. We started with 11.93 per hundred thousand flight hours, so 80% down is 2.4. Last, in 2006, it was 12.8. We are estimating eight per hundred thousand flight hours in 2009. Sylvain will address this in much more detail.
So we want to set up these filters so that we can catch the accidents before they happen below the waterline, as I showed you. We've come out with three tool kits so far: the safety management system tool kit, designed and targeted at the small operators; the flight data-monitoring system tool kit; and the simulator-based training tool kit, with syllabus.
Sylvain can take over.