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'Yes miniscule' receives international acclaim -

On MH370 & some other high profile investigations with matters of an aviation safety nature, signatory States to ICAO will now be clamouring to the Australian political and bureaucratic elite to garner a 'how to' on obfuscating their obligations to ICAO and still remaining a level 1 ICAO compliant State. Yes indeed a remarkable achievement by the Aussies - Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! OI! OI! OI!   

Referring again to the Nigerian story, I note that the Guardian somewhat expanded that news report (note the quote below... ):
 

Nigeria steps-up in global aviation safety rating[/color]
Guardian
 - ‎Jan 2, 2017‎

“Only two member states-Australia and Sri Lanka- have achieved full implementation of the SSP according to ICAO records. Nigeria is striving to achieve Level 4 which will be 100 per cent by the end 0f 2017,” it said.

And in the Daily Trust:

Global aviation safety rating: Nigeria steps up, at par with US, UK
By Abdullateef Aliyu, Lagos | Publish Date: Jan 2 2017 4:25PM



Nigeria has climbed to level three in the implementation of the State Safety Programme (SSP) Process which places it among world leaders in aviation safety.

The country is at par with countries like the United States of America, United Kingdom etc who are already in this category.

An SSP is an integrated set of regulations and activities aimed at improving aviation safety which will be monitored through Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) Continuous Monitoring Approach (CMA) after such a state has achieved an Effective Implementation (EI) of over 60 percent.

It is required that states that have achieved EI levels of over 60 per cent should endeavour to fully implement SSP by 2019.

Nigeria achieved an EI Level of 67.36% during the immediate past ICAO USOAP Audit in March 2016 which is above world average of 63.54%.

The SSP process was initiated among International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) member countries in compliance with the organization's requirements as contained in Annex 19 on Safety Management.

It was learnt that ICAO tracks the SSP implementation process of member-states via its Integrated Safety Trend Analysis and Reporting System (iSTARS).

According to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigeria has completed its Gap Analysis, implemented 43.6% of the required SSP tasks.

General Manager, Public Relations of the NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye told newsmen in Lagos that the country had developed a detailed action plan for the accomplishment of the outstanding tasks with an established and approved timeline.

So far only two member states-Australia and Sri Lanka- have achieved full implementation of the SSP according to ICAO records.

But the NCAA said Nigeria is poised to achieving Level four which is 100% by the end of 2017.


Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/busine...oCXBgro.99

It is quite remarkable what Nigeria has been able to achieve in turning around its, previously dismal, aviation safety record and system in less than a decade...

However what is probably equally remarkable is that Australia have managed to bluff and obfuscate ICAO over the same timeframe to believe that all the significant findings of what was a very damning 2008 ICAO audit - read here: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09CAN...081_a.html - have been properly addressed...

Add to that the statement above where it appears that M&M's smoke'n'mirrors bollocks SSP has convinced the rest of the world that we are 1 of 2 State's to have achieved full implementation of the SSP is frankly UDB...

Although M&M's boys and girls seem to be slowly but surely whittling down what got to over 4100 NDs to ICAO, here is a reminder of how bad it all got with the latest update (07 Dec '16) to AIP GEN 1.7: H158/16

Note that most member States are able to contain AIP GEN 1.7 to well within 100 pages but in Australia it got so bad that the AIP only provided links to the individual Annex notified differences.

For example Annex 13 currently has 10 pages and nearly 40 odd listed NDs - http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/...gation.pdf . Add that to recent track record of the ATSB in higher profile incident/accident investigation (besides QF 32) - Mildura, PelAir, etc..etc; coupled with damning Senate Inquiry reports; CTSB peer review report; a less than glowing ASRR report; and now in the ATSB's questionable conduct in oversighting the MH370 SOI search in accordance with Annex 13 - see HERE.

This all leads to a dismal assessment of the effectiveness of the ATSB as a Annex 13 defined AAI and air safety watchdog. Yet the ATSB was self-assessed by Murky and his crew at an ICAO EI level of over 96% for AAI and unbelievably ICAO have accepted this as fact - again UDB!


MTF?- Definitely...P2