Cranfield Research
 Cranfield University was expected to publish the findings of their current cabin air quality study on 15th March. Prof Helen Muir who is heading the programme set the date and has already stated that “There will be organophosphates on the flight deck”. At the close of business today, there is still no sign of the report. But given the university’s close commercial partnerships to various aerospace manufacturers, we wouldn’t expect them to bite the hand that feeds them by reporting anything that is inconvenient to the aviation industry. If the results do appear any time, we’ll send out a special bulletin.
International media Interest
 Netherlands
In the Netherlands interest is picking up in the contaminated cabin air debate. On 21st February, TV channel Nederland 2 showed a 35 minute documentary on the subject "Gif in de Cockpit" in Dutch, focusing on the KLM Fokker 70 and 100 aircraft and their respective sick aircrew. In response we’ve started a Dutch page.
 Germany
The German media has also been closely following the cabin air quality issue. Filmmaker Tim van Beveren has produced three films over the past year, and has recently released “Toxic Airlines and the Aerotoxic Syndrome” in English. All films are available on our website. German TV channel ARD are showing a new item about Aerotoxic Syndrome tomorrow, 16 March at 21:50 CET on their programme "plusminus". The English language version should be available online on 18 March.
TV news and documentaries (English) Fernsehdokumentationen (deutsch)
 USA
CNN is still following the contaminated cabin air issue and on 11 March they showed an item, "Oil leak sickens plane crew", about a US Airways Boeing 767 (flight number 1041 St Thomas to Charlotte on 17 January 2010) where seven crew members and eight passengers were taken to hospital suffering headaches and breathing problems. The airline has admitted that the incident was caused by an engine oil seal leak allowing toxic fumes into the cabin. The news item also follows up on victims of other fume events who are still suffering terrible health effects.
Dr Myhill website revamped
Dr Sarah Myhill, Aerotoxic Association medical advisor and expert in organophosphate poisoning has recently revamped her website to a Wikipedia format. It’s all logically laid out and has a section dedicated to Aerotoxic Syndrome, treatment and dietary advice.
New articles
Since our last newsletter in October we have added literally dozens of items including medical information, reports, media items and general articles. Please visit the website and take a look.
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