An Inconvenient Truth of Flying - Aerotoxic

[SeaBreeze]

I've never heard of this before, but we have a couple of pilots here on the forum that may want to give their input. Full story here.

A seven decade old cause of mysterious public ill health will eventually be solved with solutions which exist - today


Anybody lighting up a cigarette in an airliner these days would be rightly judged by society to be on the wrong side of the law - as it has finally been proven beyond reasonable doubt that exposure to toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke is dangerous.

Yet being exposed to nerve agents contained in jet engine oil in a confined space, according to the aerospace industry, somehow doesn’t cause chronic ill health effects in humans, when repeatedly exposed?

How can nerve agents even get into an airliner cabin? In around 1962 the entire airline industry stopped using pressurised ‘Outside air’ and went over to using ‘Bleed air’ which is piping the pressurised air from the jet engines, unfiltered, into the cabin. But worse still, there are no monitors to detect the deadly contaminants, only human noses.

 

[gumbud]

very very alarming - some of us seem too have got away with it???

 

[oldman]

You are referring to what is commonly known in the airline industry as "bleed air." I can only tell you what I have either been told or read from the pamphlets that we have been given. I have never seen any of the scientific experiments that have been done.

Bleed air is actually air coming in from the outside and processed from the engines. This is why passengers sometimes will smell the exhaust. Cabin air is filtered continuously and is "said" to be purer that the air inside most airports. Speaking about cancer, it was printed in our trade magazine maybe about 10 years ago that those of us who spend a lot of time onboard the aircraft. like pilots and flight attendants have been found to have a lower cancer risk than many other occupations. I think the article stated that some organization or college group surveyed some 100 occupations and found that those working in the airline industry like pilots and F/As came in somewhere around 80 or so. I forget what number one was, but number two was ironically healthcare workers. I thought that was kind of a surprise.