Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines
Theatrical poster
Directed byTristan Loraine
Written byTristan Loraine
Produced byTristan Loraine
CinematographyAnna Carrington
Benjamin Foot
Trinity Greer
Robin Lambert
Lesley Pinder
Edited byTristan Loraine
Mike Butler
Music byKate Garbutt
Distributed byDFT Enterprises (UK)
Release date
  • 30 November 2007 (2007-11-30)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$400,000 (estimated)

Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines is a 2007 British documentary film about aerotoxic syndrome directed and produced by former airline captain Tristan Loraine.

Synopsis

This documentary shows that for nearly fifty years, airline passengers and crews have been supplied with unfiltered air, called bleed air, taken directly from the engines. It shows how pressure groups have stated that this air supply sometimes becomes contaminated with neurotoxins, carcinogens, and other hazardous chemicals.[1] When this contamination occurs on an aeroplane, it is called a "fume event".[2] Many fume events have been reported, some in which the passenger cabin was filled with smoke and fumes.[3]

Global Cabin Air Quality Executive

Former British Airways Captain Tristan Loraine, who produced the film, is co-chair of Global Cabin Air Quality Executive (GCAQE).[4][5]

Contrary opinions

Research by the UK government did not find a link to long-term health problems. The UK Parliament Select Committee on Science and Technology concluded in 2000 that the concerns about significant health risks were not substantiated.[6]

In 2008 Michael Bagshaw, the former Head Doctor at British Airways, and later an advisor to Airbus, claimed that no peer-reviewed, recorded cases of neurological harm in humans followed low-level exposure to the organophosphate tricresyl phosphate (TCP), which is used as a lubricant in jet engines.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Starmer-Smith, Charles (19 December 2009). "Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a breath of fresh cabin air". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Fume events
  3. ↑ smoke and fumes on YouTube
  4. ↑ GCAQE website
  5. ↑ Ingham, John (2012). "Scandal of toxic fumes in all Jets". Sunday Express.
  6. ↑ Select Committee on Science and Technology (2000). "Chapter 4: Elements Of Healthy Cabin Air". Science and Technology - Fifth Report (Report). House of Lords. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  7. ↑ Professor Michael Bagshaw (29 November 2008). "The "Aerotoxic Syndrome"" (PDF). European Society of Aerospace Medicine. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012.

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