YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has begun safety audit in Myanmar under its Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program (USOAP), the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday.
The 12-day aviation watchdog task by a five-member team of the ICAO, which began on Monday, is to check if Myanmar's Civil Aviation Department is abiding by the recommended practices and standard for airline safety.
The current visit of ICAO team is the third time to conduct verification on Myanmar's aviation safety.
The ICAO's 32nd General Assembly in 1998 adopted the resolution to begin implementing the USOAP from 1999 and the program was verified under the comprehensive system approach (CSA) for audit in Myanmar.
In the same year, the ICAO carried out checks at airlines of members under the continuous monitoring approach (CMA) for the development of capacity and safety of the airlines.
Myanmar passed the verification of the ICAO's USOAP in 2010.
In 2013, the ICAO team visited Myanmar to follow up on the action taken on suggestions made by the ICAO coordinated validation mission.
Myanmar then passed with effective implementation of 65.92 percent.
