FAA audit continues towards air recategorization

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) agreed with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue with the audit process of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), through an exercise of technical assistance from the 6th to the 10th of next February.

This will allow Mexico to be prepared and to recover Category 1 in aviation safety as soon as possible.

In a statement, the agency reported on the meeting led on Tuesday by the interim administrator of the FAA, Billy Nolen, and the head of the SICT, Jorge Nuño.

Among the actions reported by Mexico, the following stand out: the initiative of a reform to the Civil Aviation Law to strengthen the powers of the AFAC in verification and operational safety, the regulatory investigation of accidents and incidents and the issuance, suspension, cancellation or revocation of certificates of psychophysical aptitude.

In addition to the incorporation of an area of ​​aviation medicine to evaluate technical-aeronautical personnel, which is already fully in charge of the AFAC and was published yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

“AFAC developed a Comprehensive Action Plan to address the final audit phase of the International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA). Said plan will facilitate the recovery of Category 1 with the implementation of an updated Platform for the Electronic Notification of Differences System of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), with the modifications to the legislation indicated,” the agency detailed.

The Mexican delegation that attended the high-level meeting that took place in Washington was also made up of the Undersecretary of Transportation, Rogelio Jiménez Pons, the General Director of AFAC, Miguel Enrique Vallin Osuna, and the Mexican Ambassador, Esteban Moctezuma.

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