The Australian Transport Safety Bureau recommends that the
International Civil Aviation Organization develop standards for the
classification and format of service information issued by
aircraft, engine, and component manufacturers.
See ATSB report BS/20010005,
"Investigation into Ansett Australia maintenance safety
deficiencies and the control of continuing airworthiness of Class A
aircraft".
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau recommends that the
International Civil Aviation Organization develop standards for the
classification and format of service information issued by
aircraft, engine, and component manufacturers.
The AIRP [Airworthiness Panel] Working Group of the Whole
continued discussing the issue at its meeting in January 2003 to
develop recommendations for AIRP/1 (Montreal, 1 to I 1 April
2003).
In case the issue of SBs classification is not completed at AIRP/1,
it will be necessary to include it as a new item for future work of
AIRP to be approved by the Commission.
The Airworthiness Panel of the Air Navigation Commission
considered this item and came to a conclusion that it would not be
possible to develop a Standard that could be applied on a worldwide
basis across all aircraft types, engines and components. This can
be illustrated by considering the classification and format of
service information needed for a large transport aircraft and then
applying the same classification and format to service information
needed for a hydraulic component. The Airworthiness Panel could not
see any reasonable way to mitigate the problem at the Standards and
Recommended Practices level and concluded the matter should be left
to the State of Design, working with the aircraft design
organization.