Aerotoxic Association

This pilot’s alarming account of fume events, ill-health and medical misdiagnoses, plus an article he wrote for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation trust (BIRT) telling how they have helped rehabilitate him following his brain injury caused by contaminated cabin air.

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

As part of the article “The Aircraft Environment” from BALPA’s “The Log” magazine, August-September 2004, Ex-BAe146 pilot Julian Soddy describes the effects he experienced from contaminated cabin air.

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.
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Blog of Andreas Tittelbach, a Lufthansa CityLine Avro captain who lost his health and his job.
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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.
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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.

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.

A flight attendant with a major US carrier with 30 years experience had two exposures to toxic fumes.

This flight attendant found that her symptoms dramatically reduced when she changed fleets from the Boeing 757 to the 767.
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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.
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An account of how a passenger started to develop alarming symptoms after a flight from Vancouver to Manchester, UK.
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.
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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.

A pilot's sister recalls her brother's struggle with his health and his work.