British airlines is accused of exposing cabin crew to breathing in fumes mixed with engine oil and other toxic chemicals like TCP, an organophosphate known to be dangerous to human health in high enough quantities. But the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says incidents of smoke or fumes on planes are rare and there is no evidence of long-term health effects.
Safety reports submitted to the CAA show that between April 2014 and May 2015 there were at least 251 separate incidents of fumes or smoke inside a large passenger jet operated by a British airline.
Pilot Richard Westgate died in December 2012, aged 43, after complaining of long-term health problems. The coroner said the body "disclosed symptoms consistent with exposure to organophosphate compounds in aircraft cabin air". A similar case is 34-year-old Matthew Bass who died in 2014.
Time to pack a gas mask when flying?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 09 2015, @01:48AM
Woodworking and paint sanding is likely to cause quite large particles. The fumes in planes like TCP is likely very fine molecules. So different filtering type is needed.
But your point about security is one to consider. It should however be possible to pass by using a less scary and small gas mask? (perhaps outside of states of paranoia)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:20AM
Would changing the protocol to UDP-over-IPv6 solve the issue? (sure, the plane will remain as unreliable as before, but the datagram size can be increased [wikipedia.org])
(don't shoot!! Lame attempt but only joking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford