The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) has successfully passed the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) flight safety audit, according to The Reporter.

Officials of FAA last week informed ECAA that, Ethiopia complies with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) international flight safety standards and retained its Category 1 status, according to the paper.

“We have been informed that we qualified as Category 1. There are some works that we have to do with experts of FAA. Then we will receive an official notification letter from FAA,” Wossenyeleh told The Reporter.

FAA conducted the international flight safety audit on ECAA last August. FAA team of experts lead by John Barbagallo, chief inspector, came to Addis Ababa on August 23 to audit the ECAA.

FAA inspectors assessed working procedures of the ECAA and the qualifications of its staffs.

The existence of legal framework, organizational structure, regulation, skilled labor, operation manuals, operators certification, surveillance (follow ups), and enforcement, are among the critical items of FAA's lengthy audit checklist.

Source: The Reporter