Aerotoxic Syndrome

[NorthAmericanguy]

Considering that most of us use airplanes to travel around, I'm quite sure you guys would be interested in learning about a condition called aerotoxic syndrome.

"Aerotoxic syndrome is a term describing the alleged short-term and long-term ill-health effects that are attributed to exposure to cabin air that has been contaminated with atomized engine oils and other chemicals"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotoxic_syndrome


Story short, the air in the cabin comes from the exhaust from the jet engines unfiltered, and that unfiltered air contains traces of toxic atomized engine oils and other chemicals.





[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKSxmiS ... ure=relmfu[/youtube]

[Jester]

thanks for posting.

I'm not clear if this is a new problem or old.

As usual just scanned through the videos, sorry, but FWIW here are my three ideas on the cause:

(1) Engine maintenance was mentioned in the first video as one possible cause. Oil leaking into airflow due to worn seals, bearings, poor design, whatever.

(2) I also have heard that pilots choke off fresh air in the cabin as a way to decrease drag and reduce fuel consumption. (But perhaps PER THESE VIDEOS, this actually HELPS -- maybe passengers are nowadays better off breathing stale cabin air!!)

(3) there is also the fact of chemtrails, and in the case of commercial airlines spraying this goo, ONE way they do it apparently (instead of dedicated spray nozzles disguised on wing edges) is to inject the chemspray mix into jet exhaust stream or even into the combustion chamber. I wonder if the illness is due to engine oil bleeding back into the fresh cabin air intake... OR whether it is due to the chemspray-goo bleeding back? The goo-injection modification is "aftermarket", and would not have been designed with the same exhaustive concern for passenger safety as the original unmodified engine.

[NorthAmericanguy]

The problem is old because passenger jets were never designed with fresh air being injected into the cabin directly from the atmosphere.

I'm guessing, back in the day, the aviation designers didn't think unfiltered air being injected into the cabin via the jet engines would cause any harm. It's similar to how once this country use to sell leaded gas for automobiles.


My reply to your ideas:

1. Yes, proper maintenance is the first line of defense because if the seal goes bad (at least on the type of engine in the video), a greater quantity of toxic vapors are released into the air system.

2. Stale cabin air is still toxic (to various degrees) because all air injected into the cabin is unfiltered.

3. I don't believe in Chemtrails. Sure, chemicals are used from small planes to spray pesticides, and special large jets are converted to help put out fires, but other then that I just don't believe in chemtrails.