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Lord Tyler asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps have been taken to implement the recommendation made after the 2001 report of the Swedish board of accident investigation, or the incident onboard aircraft SE-DRE on 12th November 1999, that an international database should be established with factual information from flights where suspicion of polluted cabin air exists. [HL1940]
 
 
Lord Davies of Oldham: A European Commission Directive on Occurrence Reporting in Civil Aviation came into force in July 2005, requiring EU states to have an occurrence reporting system.  The Directive was transposed into the Air Navigation Order in August 2005.  Incidents related to cabin air quality are among the list of examples of reportable occurrences.
 
The UK has had an occurrence reporting system in place since 1976.
 
The Directive also requires that data collected by the Member States is shared with the Commission and other Member States.  The Commission is creating a central European database, into which all Member States will feed information from their respective national databases.
 
7 November 2005
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Health Survey

A family holiday ruined

"When we boarded the aircraft we were all in excellent health. During the flight, my husband and I started feeling very light headed. We had head pain and felt very fatigued.
 
I could not control my bowels and was continuously in the lavatory...
 
About 48 hours after we arrived, we all developed severe flu like symptoms.
It got so bad that we had to seek medical attention and went to the emergency room at a Florida hospital ....
 
This has proven to be a great battle of red tape and ignorance. It has been an extreme mission and has demanded so much of me at a time when I am at my weakest.
 
 
To any passengers out there who have suffered ill health like this during and after flying, report it to the airline, the public health organizations, and anybody who will listen"

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I stumbled onto your site while attempting to find information on what has happed to me.  I inhaled fumes in the cabin while awaiting a gate for a prolonged period .. I was very sick upon leaving the plane and it escalated until I was hospitalized two weeks ago.  Now ..  I have a serious lung problem and fatigue that makes even doing the dishes difficult. ....  

The 'irony' in this is I write a travel column and this is not what my readers want to hear!"

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