| Toxic Cabin Fumes / Corporate Watch |
After decades of inaction and denial by governments and the airline industry, former airline captain Tristan Loraine has decided it’s time to tackle the problem of engine-contaminated toxic cabin fumes. He could be the aviation industry’s biggest whistle blower. Corporate Watch gets the details from Susan Michaelis, a former Australian Pilot, who is undertaking a PhD at UNSW in Australian has been researching this issue for over a decade.
Is four decades long enough to address the problem of aircraft contaminated air? The aviation industry, backed by governments, have spent much time and money denying the problem, downplaying it or appearing to deal with the issue. Therefore it is time the public demanded that the air in an aircraft from the engines, air they pay good money for, is properly filtered. Much aircraft air is supplied direct from the engines, contaminated with synthetic jet engine oils. While the oil is clearly good for the engines, it now appears it is not so good for the people who are forced to breathe it when it leaks into the air supply.
Tristan Loraine is the Co-Chair of the Global Cabin Air Quality Executive (GCAQE) and on the oversight committee of the US Federal Aviation Authority cabin air research. After years of sitting on airline industry committees dealing with the cabin air issue he has decided it is time the public was told the truth of what is going on – what has in fact been known for nearly 50 years.
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