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

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 [...]

Inconvenient facts have always been “inconvenient”

“Whenever a new discovery is reported to the scientific world, they say first, ‘It is probably not true.’ Thereafter, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, ‘Yes it may be true, but it is not important.’ Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they [...]

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 [...]

NHS Direct search: organophosphate poisoning (result: zilch)

Are you suffering mood swings, feeling grotty, got brain fog and been flying recently? It could be down to organophosphate poisoning from the air conditioning system on the plane – a flaw to which all commercial jetliners are susceptible.
But search for organophosphate poisoning on NHS Direct and the result will be:
Nothing found.
Oh well, organophosphate (OP) [...]