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Dream Buster
4th Jul 2009, 07:29
Boeing are being sued over sickness from contaminated air by a flight attendant.
Toxic plane air sickens flight attendant, suit says - CNN.com (http://us.cnn.com/2009/US/07/03/bleed.air.contamination/index.html#cnnSTCVideo)
All the latest news on this story and other CNN video clips at Aerotoxic Assiociation - Support for sufferers of Aerotoxic Syndrome (http://www.aerotoxic.org/)
DB :D
TwinJock
4th Jul 2009, 10:25
Lets see how far this will go and how successful she will be in her bid to wring some money from Boeing. She is going to have a tough case proving that one occurrence of a "smokey mist" caused her problems, but that her fellow cabin attendants suffered no ill health after the exposure.
These claims have been numerous, but I can not recall that anyone has successfully sued an airline - might be wrong but I doubt it!
I have been flying for much longer than she has, and I do not suffer from these problems. Maybe I sit in a "cleaner" part of the aircraft!
Life is a terminal disease - who can I sue?
In case you didn't go to the Aerotoxic Association link, the CNN in the USA did a good piece on contaminated bleed air (http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2009/07/03/dcl.ravitz.airplanes.toxic.cnn) yesterday which was very well explained by their reporter and by Capt Tristan Loraine.
(TwinJock: Life may be a terminal disease, but who knows what inhaling TCP can lead to? To me, breathing even small amounts of a neurotoxin every day at work can't be good for you. And as has been explained in numerous places, just because you're not affected doesn't mean everything's OK - due to individuals' genetic makeup, enzymes etc, not everyone has the same response.)
Not sure Why this has been moved to the cabin crew forum - it can affect anyone in an aircraft.
flapsforty
4th Jul 2009, 13:36
Probably because it has the words ´flight attendant´ in the first line & the Mod in question was speed reading. :8
TightSlot
4th Jul 2009, 17:19
Contaminated air is discussed at length elsewhere so we'll close this branch of the discussion