the story gets funnier by the day. sinto-sinto (lunatic) na yata ito usec.
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Fired ATO chief still there as No. 2 
By Tarra Quismundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
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MANILA, Philippines--THERE was nothing in the way Daniel Dimagiba smiled that would suggest he had just been fired. And his desk nameplate still bore a taped computer printout declaring his title as "Assistant Secretary."
As far as Dimagiba is concerned, despite his sacking as officer in charge of the Air Transportation Office, he is still ATO executive director, the second top man who will take on the chief's role in his absence.
As executive director, he also acts as the ATO chief's deputy, empowered to make decisions, sign papers and even lead safety oversight operations.
"If the secretary is busy in the department, he might ask me to take over... depends on our arrangement," Dimagiba told the Inquirer in an interview Friday which he clocked to last no more than five minutes.
Ms Arroyo relieved Dimagiba as acting aviation chief on Thursday in light of the ATO's failure to comply with international air safety standards.
Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza was ordered to temporarily take control of the ATO.
Dimagiba said in the interview that he even might be designated concurrently as chief of ATO's safety division, the office that is supposed to take care of pilot and aircraft licensing and certification and airworthiness inspections--an area where, precisely, the FAA had rated the ATO to be internationally unacceptable.