Toyota to withdraw 1.8 million ‘dangerous cars’ – BAe?

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/306589,toyota-to-recall-18-million-cars-in-europe.html

TOYOTA is to withdraw 1.8 million cars due to a serious design fault with the accelerator pedal.

Sick aircrew have been telling the authorities for many years of the dangers of the BAe 146 air conditioning system – the air everybody breathes in the aircraft.

When will these aircraft be recalled with an unacceptable design flaw?

Answer:

When people’s deaths are conclusively linked to the fault -  being ‘half dead’ - does not count…

Sick or what.

Doctors to be tested like airline pilots…..Take the exam now.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7071091/Doctors-face-skills-check-every-five-years.html

Doctors – you will be tested on your competence every five years, just like airline pilots are tested every 6 months.

Take the UK Government test now…….

1. An  airline pilot has just been to see you suffering from  serious fatigue, slurred speech and a poor memory. Your first supsicions are:

1. Another malingering pilot.
2. The pilot is ‘depressed’.
3. The pilot may be suffering from repeatedly breathing toxic oil fumes.

2. How would you treat somebody with aerotoxic syndrome?

1. Antibiotics.
2. Anti depressants.
3. Stop exposure to oil fumes and undergo specialist treatment.

3.  How important are specialist blood / fat tests?

1. There is no link – so don’t test it!
2. If your blood is red you are OK!
3. Toxins are stored in the fat and should be tested for stored organophosphates.

4. How many pilots suffer from Aerotoxic Syndrome?

1. None as it doesn’t exist.
2. Only a few, so it doesn’t matter.
3. 81% of BALPA pilots surveyed reported fatigue – work it out for yourself.

5. What happens if a doctor or pilot fails a routine exam?

1. He /she loses his/ her job.
2. He / she loses his/ her job.
3. He / she loses his / her job.

You have now completed your exam.

If you answered “c” to any of the questions - you have failed! Sorry.

Now learn the answers and don’t ask awkward questions.We have ways of maintaining the Best kept secret in aviation….just ask the wrong questions.

Aerotoxic – The best or worst kept secret?

Aerotoxic Syndrome – the Best or Worst kept secret in aviation?

If it is the BEST kept secret – then nobody knows about it.

If it is the WORST kept secret – then everybody knows about it.

So which is it?

A bit of both really - as it is true that the VAST MAJORITY of aircrew and passengers remain completely oblivious to the harm done by repeatedly breathing toxic oil fumes in a confined space.

However, quite a few people know  – ALL about it – mostly doctors and airline execs who are desperate to keep it a……. secret!

There’s no doubt it’s a secret.

How about…….. the BIGGEST secret in aviation?

 

 

 

Doctor to Michael Caine

In the 1960’s  film The Ipcress File there is a wonderful scene starring Michael Caine…

Doctor: “Hello – how are you?”

M . Caine:  ”You’re the bloody Doctor – you tell me…..”

Boom, Boom – a classic.

Don’t shoot the messenger….

Bad news has to be passed on by messengers – please don’t shoot the messengers!

Unless ALL the messengers are shot - It only serves to prove the message?

 

Labour – has never worked for the farmers, Gulf War Vets and aircrew! What about the public?

A queue of Aerotoxic Syndrome sufferer’s?

The UK Labour Government has first of all failed the farming community by ignoring the organophosphate poisoning of hard working farmers.

Next they have (unwisely) failed the Military and Army in particular by poisoning  the Gulf War Soldiers.

Now they are failing the Aircrew – pilots and cabin crew who are daily exposed to a cocktail of poison air.

These are quite small groups of people? But the people they have been really letting down is:

Themselves and the innocent, travelling Public – all of whom are exposed to toxic oil fumes.

They can mess up a few isolated groups but when they mess themselves up and the masses….

LABOUR IS HISTORY?

Again.

Airplane gassed – carbon monoxide????

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/22256683/detail.html

Carbon Monoxide NOT suspected of gassing aircrew and passengers!

Yet another airplane has landed with the crew and passengers being gassed in flight.

What could be the problem - Carbon monoxide?

er no…. it’s not CO.

How long will it be before we are told the exact make up of these toxic oil fumes – why is it such a big mystery – how do they get away with it?

Please contact the FAA with your displeasure and comments…

“(Not) Going the extra mile – to get the job done”

http://www.1001crash.com/index-page-description-accident-Cross_RJ100-lg-2-crash-130.html

On 24th November 2001 a Crossair RJ100 crashed on approach at Zurich killing the pilots, a cabin crew and 21 passengers with 9 others surviving.

The Captain was blamed for the fatal accident.

In August 2004 a BAe 146 Captain walked off a flight shortly before take off as his memory and health had deteriorated to the point where he was unsafe to fly. 

In January 2006 he was grounded permanently due to ‘chronic stress’.

In the ‘expert’ aviation medical Professor’s report of 2006 the following words were written with reference to choosing not to fly in August 2004:

‘(not) going the extra mile to get the job done’.

The questions are:

1. Which flight would you rather have been on?
2. What is the job – exactly?
3. How might the dead have written both reports?
4. Perhaps most disturbingly, how are these facts kept secret for so long?

 

 

 

 

 

Royal Flying Corps, chivalry & parachutes…

Above the heads of comrades embroiled in bloody, dirty combat on the ground, first world war pilots fought what was termed a ‘Gentleman’s war’ – more specifically in the early years.

There were rules of engagement – the pilots often knew the names of the people they fought against and they saw their faces when they fought. It was very close combat. There were times when you didn’t shoot and times when you did – all these honourable rules. And yet on the ground below them there was mustard gas, trench warfare, 11 million people being slaughtered.

 It was an incredible dichotomy: the last  ’gentlemans war’  being fought just above the heads of what was the start of horrible, bloody, modern warfare tactics.

Pilots were not issued parchutes, because it was felt that the aeroplanes were more valuable than the pilots (sic) and they didn’t want someone to bail out of a perfectly good aeroplane.

The pilots were, however given a pistol with a single bullet in case their planes caught on fire, They thought it would be a more humane way to die.

Any comparison to the Aerotoxic debate are entirely coincidental:

• The chivalry has long since gone, greedy people prefer not to belive the pilots any more when they report their ill health.
• There is no protection from neurotoxic oil fumes (or parachutes).

How little things change.

Just be very wary if you are handed a loaded pistol during a fume event…

 

UK Government – Apology – 49 years late!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8458855.stm

The UK Government finally issued a long-awaited apology to survivors of the Thalidomide drug scandal on 14th January 2010.

Mike O’Brien, the health minister, told Parliament the Government expressed its “Sincere regret and deep sympathy” to all those who suffered deformities caused by the morning sickness drug, which was withdrwan from sale in 1961. He also confirmed  a £20 million of funding for the Thalidomide Trust Charity. 

As it has taken 49 years for this ‘obvious’ apology – sufferers of Aerotoxic Syndrome can expect an apology for all of the permanent ill health due to oil fumes in 2059? We are not quite sure exactly which day, but prepare to celebrate!!!

Our deepest sympathy extends to anybody who has been touched by the Thalidomide issue for so long – with no apology.

How sad, yet typical.

How do they get away with it?

Quite easily, actually.