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Of all the passengers carried over the thousands of miles of forest, only 

 one passenger was fatally injured. That is, a rate of one passenger fatality 

 for nearly 4,800,000 miles of operation. Even in the case of personnel the 

 safety factor is remarkably high, in that during ten years of operation over 

 Northern Ontario forests, only eight were fatally injured. The fatality rate 

 for personnel is one for each 600,000 miles of operation. Such records go a 

 long way toward proving that properly organized air travel compares very 

 favorably with modern road travel for safety. 



A clear impression as to how the Air Service is employed may be had from 

 Table II, showing the various classifications under which the flying has been 

 done during the past ten years. 



TABLE II 



Classification Hours Performed 



Fire Detection 26,146 .20 



Fire Suppression 20,206 .06 



Transportation Ordinary 8,949 .50 



Transportation Special 3,102 . 12 



Sketching 3,016.23 



Operations 3,989.18 



Ferrying 3,424 .01 



Flying Instruction 2,351 .23 



Photography 1,147 .50 



Inspection 951 . 20 



Tests 925.07 



Forced Landings 616 .34 



Observers' Instruction 94 .09 



Dusting 41 .35 



Game Supervision 26 . 50 



Wireless Tests 20.15 



Table III shows up in an interesting light, the steady improvement in the 

 work done by the Ontario Provincial Air Service during the ten years since its 

 inauguration. 



