FAA downgrades Indian Aviation Safety - Some facts (Nannygate continues?)

Looks like the US still smarting under Nannygate. They went after the visas of IT companies, They went after the Pharma companies - Now they have downgraded Indian Aviation's safety ranking.

Now let us look at some facts:

	India		US		remarks
Legislation	9		8		out of 10
organisation	6		10		out of 10
licensing	9		9		out of 10
operations	9		9		out of 10
air worthiness	9		10		out of 10
accident investigation	8		8		out of 10
air navigation services	6		8		out of 10
aerodromes	9		10		out of 10
percent	81.25		90
based on icao audit till	21st dec 2012		19th nov 2007		no info on audits & followups beyond this date
number of safety incidents	520		3180
fatal accidents	159		1375
accidents/incidents	0.305769231		0.432389937		strike rate
fatalities	3105		14372
population	1250000000		330000000
fatalities as % of pop'n	0.0002484		0.004355152
probabilty score	0.000305723		0.004839057
rationalise by 10000	3.057230769		48.39057239

1. There is a 16 times more probability of dying in an air accident in the US than in India

2. For every safety incident there is a 43% strike rate in the US as opposed to a 30% in India for conversion into a fatal accident (and to think that our famous flying coffins - the MIG's are also included in this database -take them out and this conversion rate will drop rather sharply)

So what is the yardstick for the 81% to India and 90% to the US?