Jet Lag?

Nearly everyone suffers from jet lag when they fly. But could jet lag actually be down to chemical poisoning?
We all assume that the half dead feeling we sometimes have when getting off a flight is down to jet lag and is caused by the disruption to our body clocks – especially when flying long distances [...]

U.S attourney Mike Ferrara comments on toxic cabin air lawsuit

Glad to see that Mike is highlighting the Terry Williams case on this website.
Read his article here

Contaminated airliner air: Flight attendant files lawsuit against Boeing

Back in April 2007 flight attendant, Terry Williams, noticed a “misty haze type of smoke” on Flight 843 as it taxied toward a gate in Dallas, Texas.
Little did she know that the haze was caused by contaminated air caused by a leak in the plane’s engines – known as a ‘fume event’. Little did [...]

Blood donors needed: Strictly no pilots

I’d always given blood, from a young age and didn’t see how being a pilot would change that.
I’m intelligent enough to know that you don’t donate blood shortly before flying several trusting passengers to their destination. The after effects of donating blood are rare, but you don’t want to take chances like that.
Anyway, I found [...]

Has the BBC censored “Aerotoxic Syndrome”?

In 2008, the BBC made a Panorama programme about contaminated air in airliners called Something In The Air? However what should have been a balanced look at the issue turned out to be somewhat biased.
When asked by the BBC if he thought any aircraft accidents had occurred as a result of pilots breathing in toxic [...]

Flying abroad for your holiday? Beware the threat to health from toxic fumes

So you’ve been working hard all year and you’re looking forward to a much needed holiday. Somewhere hot and sunny would be nice. Time with the family, recharge the batteries, relax and have fun. Sounds good.
That’s what Emily Graeme thought when she and her family flew to Florida, unfortunately she spent most of her well [...]

Twins’ health seriously damaged after breathing in aircraft fumes

“I was perfectly healthy when I boarded that flight and have been perfectly unhealthy since I got off that flight,” says 45 year old  Valerie  Vaughn. Now she and her twin sister Victoria Holsted are taking Southwest Airlines to court.
The twins were passengers on Southwest flight 1705 from Los Angeles when the passenger compartment of [...]

Top doc says smoking should be banned from cars when children are passengers – but noxious “fume events” on aircraft are far more hazardous…

Adults should be banned from smoking in cars when children are passengers, the new head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said.
Professor Terence Stephenson said children deserved protection.
“You can’t inflict this on your colleagues any more. Why should we treat our children’s health as a lower priority?” he said.
Professor Stephenson, who [...]