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Two top BA pilots die within days of each other after complaining of long-term health effects of breathing in toxic oil fumes while flying
"Pilots have to put on oxygen masks up to five times a week...Lawyers hope to prove the existence of 'aerotoxic syndrome'...They say the air quality problem will be seen as the 'new asbestos'". Just wait until the American Trial Lawyers find a couple of rent-a-cripples and get on this anecdote. Hopefully some actual science will emerge one way or another. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
my only question is where's this been for the last 50 years?? As a medical pro I know mass hysteria very well... this is how these things get started... 1000s have been exposed to the same air without challenge...
"...thousands of pilots are "unfit" to fly", a medical specialist is claiming, according to the article, and this has happened to others apparently. I don't think this is a BS story if people are suffering from this.
thousands are unfit to fly, but not directly because of toxic oil fumes......didn't exactly connect that very well
Your point is well taken given the possibility of a class action tort by some trial attorney in the American system. Here we have a cohort of two that, while unfortunate, cannot be made to represent the whole. We saw this ploy on the immunization/autism junk science where you have a Hollywood airhead Jenny something who has pronounced her cohort of two affected kids to obviously represent all children vaccinated with the MMR...while ignoring here three surgeries for gelatinous thoracic enhancement on her part.
I served on ships where we were inhaling similar fumes 24 hours per day for weeks at a time. Maybe if I can find one more aging sailor with Meniere's disease we can sue the Canadian Navy.
I served on ships where we were inhaling similar fumes 24 hours per day for weeks at a time. Maybe if I can find one more aging sailor with Meniere's disease we can sue the Canadian Navy.
John Donaldson said "...while ignoring here three surgeries for gelatinous thoracic enhancement on her part."
Yeah, and Jenny McCarthy has fake boobs too!
Yeah, and Jenny McCarthy has fake boobs too!
good god! people have been flying these planes for decades.... aerotoxic syndrome?? BS just more mass hysteria !!