At some time I read a boeing publicity article that the 787 air conditioning was reverting to prior bleed era because of contamination. Imho this was changed because someone realised that the majority of Boeing's production uses bleed air and the costs of 're engineering would be prohibitive.
After a lot of investigation at Kings, Harley Street and Stoke Podges under the top liver specialist,Rodger Williams, I was put in the military hospital at RAF Halton. After a fortnight I was discharged- my wife told me afterwards that I had been given a week to live which is why I was put into Halton.
I was flying the Trident at the time, maintenance as well as management was lousy and fume incidents were common place. Except for lung problems (grew up east of london during the smog years) I had good health until I suddenly experienced gastro and liver problems.
My flight manager- nicknamed the corporal by the bomber boys- tried to sack me saying that I obviously wasn't suited to flying due to my nervous disposition.
I slowly recovered helped by only flying a week a month.
Ten years later I had a recurrence of the symptoms but more extreme. I was flying the DC10 for SR. Amongst my small group of foreign first officers around a quarter had neurological problems. I also had a friend with WardAir on the DC10 who died after a crossing having had a stress ECG complete with a crash team a few weeks before. I had a similar investigation.
Whilst I am sure that my 70s health problems were caused by a neurotoxin associated with the air con the DC10 incidents could have been larium although that would not have explained the WardAir death.
I contacted all parties who dealt with me in the 70s wrt obtaining my Tox reports to no avail.
I lost my license 22 years ago and since I stopped flying jets some of my symptoms have improved.
As to the corporals' nervous pilot...I've gone on to teaching mountain flying, winching and acrobatics and at 67 I'm climbing mountains and "jumping off".paragliding.
I had contact with an aircraft engineer whose company supplied the turbine lubricants as well skydrol and he said he had no knowledge about organophosphate poisoning. This I can believe as the industry has a long history of manipulation but Until recently I would guess that a lot of this cover up was pure ignorance and incompetence until BALPA suddenly changed tack.
The global implications are immense as are the pesticides, GM engineering and spent uranium munitions and we ignore them.
Last edited by blind pew; 11th Apr 2017 at 12:24.