rjs,
Maybe you're the one missing the point; your xenophobic reply mentions one page of a 76 page report which is 10 years out of date and has nothing to do with licensing, training, operational equipment or instructors.
Even if you look at pages 50 and 51 of the same report and take a more representative average over 5 years you'll see that the accident rates per 100K hours for the 2 are the same. The report makes no reference to training or licensing, nor to pilot experience. Let's just forget the overall accident rate including EMS and now show us some statistics if that's your bag, where better equipment results in less accidents. Let's have a meaningful discussion about the benefits of moving map GPS giving better spatial awareness, TCAS giving better awareness to other aircraft, getting a proper common worldwide EGPWS obstacle database and training pilots to use all of these relatively new, expensive aids, but not lose their basic skills when these fail or give false results.
The repoprt from which you quote serves only to highlight that there are lies, damn lies and statistics