at dfa a you would look at to things. it is a particular pilot showing an excessive failure rate and they did the training program >> what what you have stood training review board at

dfa a project managers are planning more on-site inspections for the recovery act projects. it is been our experience that the most effective oversight comes from physical inspection of the work being done in the field. in addition we are going to close the monitor the grand caymans to ensure that this recovery act funds are used appropriately and were using some of the administrative funding were provided by the recovery act to hire an accounting firm to take a look at the factors we currently use to consider high-risk grantees. this will help this repayments made to such grantees to identify and correct in realtime any problems that we see. mr. chairman, this faa is proud of what we have accomplished and we are in the midst of billions of dollars of bids being received daily. the bidding process is robust and the savings resulting from excellent bids are allowing us to stretch the dollars. we are actually being able to undertake more projects and plant and found more projects than we originally anticipated so we thank you for your support in this effort. we will continue t

so we are hoping that dfa will be taking recommendations and incorporating them into some regulations, and we believe that if implemented it will go a long way of reducing the insidious effect of fatigue. >> what% of the flights in the country are by commuter carriers? >> about 50% of the flights representing 20% of the passengers. >> 50% of the flights by commuters. do you have data that is accessible with respect to accidents in the last ten years, commuters forces major carriers? >> i don't have that handy. we could get that if you wish and supply that to you. >> the reason i ask the question is my understanding it is around seven of the most recent nine accidents were accidents with commuter carriers. does that sound reasonable to you? >> that may not be including the three accidents we are investigating right now which include the hudson river, denver 737 continental. these were not fatal but they were major air carrier, major loss and of course now air france that we are participating with the french authorities. >> we should say that we are discussing this through the lens of a