Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Ozbiggles, I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to model it. You know the pilots flight and duty history. Half life is apparently 3-4 hours. >30% produces serious symptoms. I don’t know the uptake mechanism and numbers, but I’m sure the aeromedical types can model it, at least to decide if it’s a possible cause - in the sense of calculating how big the leak would have had to be. Are we talking pinholes or bigger cracks?
Like any model, you would need to assume such wide variances/tolerances for each of these inputs (and more) that you can only arrive at an imprecise conclusion. This is probably what has been done under the circumstances.