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British Airlines 'Face Multiple Toxic Air Claims'

posted by n1 on Monday June 08 2015, @09:37PM   
from the he-who-smelt-it dept.

kaszz writes:

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?

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Original Submission

• Aerotoxic syndrome perhaps Aerotoxic syndrome perhaps (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday June 09 2015, @04:10AM

  by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 09 2015, @04:10AM (#193931) Journal

  This sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotoxic_syndrome [wikipedia.org]

  http://www.toxiccabinair.com/ [toxiccabinair.com]

  http://aerotoxic.org/about-aerotoxic-syndrome/ [aerotoxic.org]

  Friend has become very sensitive to this, (real or not, I don't know), but she tries never to fly anymore, as she invariably gets sick when she does. Nice lady, but prone to beliefs in fringe things....

  Major aircraft manufacturers have hit teams of lawyers to knock down any such law suits because the problem of engine combustion products seeping cabin air are so pervasive it would ground the entire fleet of older aircraft and bankrupt the manufacturers. Or so the conspiracy talk goes......

  Quite frankly I have no idea one way or the other.

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• Re:Aerotoxic syndrome perhaps (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:51AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:51AM (#193991)

  I find it funny how you criticize this woman for believing in things without good evidence and yet you yourself do the exactly same thing by claiming this is a fringe thing and talking about conspiracies. Remember 20 years ago when smoking certainly didn't cause cancer?

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