Carbon Monixide Poisioning on GB Airways & Iberia

[In trim]

Knowing very well the distance from the Beehive to the airport, could the crew bus really be a suspect? I'm not by any means an expert on Carbon Monoxide, but the distances involved are relatively short, and even allowing for traffic delays and queues at Security I find this hard to believe. Also crew would have had several minutes of (relatively!) "clean air" while they cleared security.

A red herring me-thinks!

[Greenfinch]

calltheball,

In answer to your question, Flight Deck Crew and Cabin Crew in GB share the same briefing area.

Cheers,

GF

[calltheball]

Thanks -that's one possible suggestion out. Be interesting to find out the outcome.
All the best
CTB

[cwatters]

A few years ago I consumed a well known beverage that I believe to have been contaminated. I had similar symptoms to those discribed by the crew (pounding head, blind spots, vomiting etc). I suspected CO because we were living in a rented flat which had some very old gas heaters... yet my wife was totally unaffected. I was unaware of the real cause until I drank more from the same family size bottle several days later - and the symptoms came back again. A further week later I found out that that numerous other people had been effected at a school and that the product had been recalled as a precaution. (It took me that long to find out because I didn't speak the local language and missed all reports on the TV). In the end the company that made the product blamed mass hysteria! Sure wish I had kept that bottle.

[Rumours everywhere]

With reference to the A321 smoke/cabin air contamination... Slippery has already admitted that he feels that the APU's have an inherent oil leaking problem, which is 'burning off' into the air supply.

Someone I flew with a while ago told me that there is a US 757 operator (The B757 had the same problem with burning off oil - so I am led to believe) that now has several of its flightdeck with lung cancer, due to the continuous inhalation of a carcenogenic substance. Although I would not wish to put down the serious long term consequences of CO inhalation... our exposure to burnt off oil is an equally serious one, and whilst it 'apears' that this has ceased, it may still be a very major issue with long term effects.

Personally, I have never been so tight chested, light headed, physically tired, lacking energy, and just generally run down since I moved onto the Airbus. Working harder?!? Hmmnn... maybe. But I don't think so.

It does seem rather coincidental that we have had a few people off work, reasonably long term, with lung problems, and all on the Airbus.

I'm not too sure that Airbus really give two hoots either.

As far as GB is concerned, well... they were rather slow off the mark (probably due to a few of our incompetent GB engineers - not all of them I hasten to add - just those that make the decisions), but the pace has picked up a bit now... lets hope we do find out what the problem is, and get it sorted once and for all. Having it open ended is not good for anyone.

[Rumours everywhere]

Is there a possible link to this thread on a UK aircraft???

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=96391

Interesting!!!

[Plane Speaker]

If dry ice is used to keep trolleys cool, could this introduce enough CO into the localised areas to introduce nausea to the crew only?

[SLF3]

No - the process used to produce dry ice would effectively exclude CO.