| NetJets kept unserviceable aircraft in service, endangering passengers and seriously injuring a pilot.
On April 11, 2006 First Officer Gibbs and his Captain, both NetJets pilots, reported for duty to fly their employer’s Cessna Citation Excel, registered CS- DFR at London City airport. The pilots were informed by an engineer there was problem with the air conditioning system on the previous flight, but that the aircraft was fit for service. The aircraft was flown to Dublin, Ireland without incident.
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| This Airbus A330 captain has been suffering various degrees of ill health for the past 23 years with diagnoses including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and neuropsychological disorder. Only after recently hearing about Aerotoxic Syndrome have his symptoms really started to make sense. |
| This passenger from Belgium experienced symptoms after every flight in an Avro RJ 100 aircraft. |
| This passenger suffered symptoms for the best past of five years after a fume event in 2003. After a flight on an A319 in August 2010 and another fume event, he has had a reoccurrence of his health problems.
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| This testimony is a translation of an article an article published in the German newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 20 August 2010 and features an interview with former flight attendant Aida Infante who lost her health and career to toxins in aircraft cabins. |
Leonard Lawrence had been a patient and subject to the Court of Protection.Hospital Medical Director: Leonard Lawrence:
"He was then medicated to the extent that he lost mental capacity. During the period the Official Solicitor of the Supreme Court acted as his Guardian ad Litem, three Court of Protection medical certificates (CP3s) had been obtained but not registered with the Court of Protection. He was, therefore, for nearly 18 months regarded as a mentally ill patient without access to the Court of Protection. During this time considerable amounts of his assets went missing".
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| This is an anonymous report received by NASA and forwarded to Embraer, the aircraft manufacturer. The report was written by a first officer concerned with the frequent fume events in the EMB-190 aircraft and the health effects it was causing him and his colleagues. Report on fumes in the EMB-190 aircraft
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| This testimony is from an email received by the Aerotoxic Association in 2008. This passenger has been suffering ill health since a honeymoon holiday flight to Bangkok in 2002. Español
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| Blog of Andreas Tittelbach, a Lufthansa CityLine Avro captain who lost his health and his job. Deutsch
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| A passenger who was in the cleanroom business for most of his working life expresses his scepticism over cabin air quality. |
| An experienced Cabin Service Director suffered for years with various illnesses before making the link to Aerotoxic Syndrome. Español
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| Susan is a medically-retired pilot and this is the testimony she sent to the Expert Panel on Aircraft Air Quality (EPAAQ) enquiry, set up by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to investigate cabin air quality and related health problems. |
| Aerotoxic Association founder and chairman Capt John Hoyte explains how contaminated cabin air affected his health and why he decided to help other similarly-afflicted passengers and crew members.
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| After 20 months of serious illness following an exposure to hydraulic fluid, Flight Attendant Anna Denney-Sandefer found a treatment that has dramatically improved her health.
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| A flight attendant with a major US carrier with 30 years experience had two exposures to toxic fumes.
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| This flight attendant found that her symptoms dramatically reduced when she changed fleets from the Boeing 757 to the 767. Deutsch Español
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| This pilot’s problems started when he began flying the BAe 146. Since taking early retirement, his health has gone downhill further. Deutsch Español
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| An account of how a passenger started to develop alarming symptoms after a flight from Vancouver to Manchester, UK. Deutsch
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| A pilot who started having health problems flying the 146 found that things just went downhill after changing aircraft. |
| A candid account of this once-fit and athletic pilot’s decline in health following a fume event. Deutsch Español
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| This is a letter from a passenger to the US House of Representatives and tells of her ordeal of a fume event on a flight which diverted to Pittsburg en route between Dulles and San Diego. Letter from Robin Montmayeur |
A currently-serving flight attendant describes his gradual decline of health, and makes a vivid description of symptoms suffered and how it has affected his life. |
| Another BAe 146 captain gives his account of ill-health, his opinion of a pilot union and his suggestions on the problem of contaminated cabin air. |
| Captain GH eventually lost his health after 18 years of flying the BAe146. Two years on, his health has almost recovered to the way it was before. |
A travel writer's experience of cabin fumes. |
| A pilot's recovers his health after stopping flying the BAe 146, only to receive a more devastating blow following a fume event in his new job on a different aircraft. Español
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| A mother's account of how her son's character changed, and the effect it had on his family life. |
| This pilot describes how he was cast aside by his employer after having lost his licence. |
| With a long career flying all manner of airliners, this 757 captain thought his persistent health problems were just a result of getting old, until various medical tests revealed the truth. Español
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| A passenger tells how a holiday to Florida in 2007 was ruined. To this day, she and her whole family are suffering from the effects of contaminated air.
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| A pilot's sister recalls her brother's struggle with his health and his work. |
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