Canadian air taxi operators must act to reduce accidents in their sector of the industry, which has more accidents — and more fatalities — than all other sectors of Canada’s commercial aviation industry combined, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said today.
The TSB included four recommendations in Safety Issue Investigation Report A15H0001, Raising the Bar on Safety: Reducing the Risks Associated With Air-Taxi Operations in Canada. The recommendations call for air taxi operators, their clients and Transport Canada (TC) to work together to “eliminate the acceptance of unsafe practices and to promote both proactive safety management and a positive safety culture,” the TSB said.
The agency also recommended that TC “close known safety gaps in the regulations” and “require all commercial operators to collect data on hours flown and aircraft …
