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Aerotoxic Association
12th May 2011 Special Edition |
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Don't worry, there's only a little bit of poison in the cabin air today |
Cranfield University report finally published on 10th May 2011.
In 2007 the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee recommended that ‘Research to identify the substances produced during a fume event be completed urgently’.
Cranfield University were tasked by the UK Department of Transport (DfT) to carry out this work which cost around £600K.
100 flights using 5 different aircraft types did not identify a single fume event.
The work was ‘peer reviewed’ by industry led scientists and has now been published to prove that fume events did not occur on the 100 flights.
The DfT has already concluded that a fume event occurs in approximately 1 in every 100 flights.
The University has also failed to identify the substances in a fume event, as originally tasked. |
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Minister of State for (Rail and Aviation) Transport Theresa Villiers said in Parliament:
I am grateful to Cranfield university for their rigorous and painstaking work. I am also grateful to the participating airlines which made their flight staff and management time and their
aircraft available to the project. Without this invaluable practical help, the research would not have been possible.
The Department will always take the health of persons on board aircraft very seriously and I hope the publication of this thorough and independent analysis by Cranfield university will provide reassurance on this issue. We will continue to keep in close touch on all aviation health matters with the UK’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority.
The Department will now take forward the one remaining cabin air study outstanding—the swab test research being conducted by the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh. When that has been finished all the completed research projects will be submitted to the Committee on Toxicity for their consideration so that the public can be assured that this matter has been thoroughly investigated. |
David Learmount, Flight Safety Journalist at Flight International replied:
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