KUALA LUMPUR: A local university found issues with Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) prior to the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) move to downgrade Malaysia’s aviation regulatory body. “The impact of the downgrading would see a serious cascading implication to the local aviation economy, directly and indirectly, ”He said the country could lose millions if not billions of ringgit from this downgrade. “The downgrade was partly due to the Transport Ministry’s inability to move fast enough to make changes in CAAM to manage and regulate the aviation industry efficiently, ” Sufian said. He also said some of the local civil aviation legislations governing the industry and airlines are also not in line with the current global standards. He said as part of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) requirement, the safety management to establish a State Safety Programme (SSP) should be placed under the preview of the CAAM instead of the jurisdiction of the Transport Ministry’s secretary-general.

Source: The Star November 14, 2019 21:45 UTC