The Aerotoxic Logbook (ATLB) in English (EN)

3,000 Lufthansa flight attendants have suffered cabin air damage since 2000?

This is the number circulating internally among Lufthansa flight attendants. And it certainly has a basis, because such numbers do not arise by chance.

So, we asked Lufthansa:

First of all, could they give us figures on how many people have been affected since 2000? Answer: "We do not have the requested number."

We then followed up and asked in real terms whether Lufthansa could confirm the figure of 3,000? We asked on 9 February, at 12:58p.m. to be exact

The answer was not long in coming. It came exactly 7 minutes later at 1:07p.m.:

"I would very much like to send you a more detailed reply. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm the mentioned number, as we do not have it available."

What can one conclude just from the quick-as-lightning response?

Various things, of course. However, we assume that we hit the nail on the head, and that the number 3,000 cabin air injured flight attendants is accurate.

"Everything about cabin air - unfiltered"

is the subject of the programme will run in "PLANE TALK" on the YouTube channel "pilotsEYE.tv". Dieter SCHOLZ from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) and heads the Aircraft Design & Systems Group will be interviewed.

Subject matter will be about cabin air and Corona: starting at 6 p.m. onwards. The channel has 353,000 subscribers.

Perception trap "Fume Event": Risk for aviation safety and the crew

December 19 marks the tenth anniversary of a fume incident on approach to Cologne/Bonn Airport that nearly ended in disaster:

"It's hard to imagine if we had passed out! The plane would have followed the LOC and GS and hit the threshold in Cologne with 8 tons of residual fuel - because of snow - and 144 guests + 5 crew members. I don't want to imagine the catastrophe until today."

This is how the co-pilot summarized it in his Flight Report Cockpit at the end, which can be read in full at www.ansTageslicht.de/cockpit-flight-report. The entire incident is reconstructed at Lufthansa's subsidiary Germanwings on December 19, 2010

To date, the industry seems to have learned nothing - fume events are still happening and - in concrete terms - little or nothing is being done about them.

Because such incidents pose a risk to flight safety and the crew, the research project "Risk Perception" is looking into the question of why this is so: that nothing is being done. The first explanation: the existing information and figures are incomplete and cannot capture the problem either qualitatively or quantitatively: a classic case of a perception trap, when a problem can become a risk and everyone thinks/believes it is not a problem.

Prof. Dr. Johannes LUDWIG, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter SCHOLZ (both Hamburg University of Applied Sciences - HAW), the patient association P-COC, the whistleblower network and a former pilot who is no longer able to fly due to fume events held a press briefing on this topic.

The problem of "underreporting" , why this is a perception trap and how underreporting of fume events affects air traffic safety and why it poses a health risk to the crew is described in detail at www.ansTageslicht.de/perception-trap-underreporting.

It was probably unavoidable under the given circumstances: If an aviation supervisory  authority delegates its duties to those it is supposed to (actually) supervise, this is what happens: a faulty sensor controls faulty software and sends the aircraft into disaster. The pilots did not stand a chance.

Barely five months later the second crash. For the same reasons.

After the first disaster, the FAA had already calculated that up to 15 crashes were possible over the life cycles of 4,800 aircraft of this type. The authority only reacted after crash number 2.

The EASA was also aware of the problems. The EASA did not react either. Nor did they warn.

We have documented the disasters: the two crashes and above all, the conditions at Boeing and the (actually) responsible aviation supervisory authorities: www.ansTageslicht.de/boeing737max8 . 

IATA and "fake news"

The economic situation is bad in the aviation industry, that is common knowledge and why. In fact, the aviation business seems to be so desperate that the international umbrella organisation IATA resorts to false statements, for example by booming on its Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/iata.org/posts/3518937378172375

There you will find the slogans that:

•     the cabin air is as clean as in an operating theatre of a hospital
•     the HEPA filters (if any) are capable of keeping 99.99% of the coronavirus out or filtering it
•     the air exchange in the aircraft takes place every 2-3 minutes and
•     all the air would therefore be completely exchanged 20-30 times per hour.

The aviation expert Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter SCHOLZ has already explained and communicated on several occasions that this is 'pure nonsense'.
But that obviously does not stop the aviation business from continuing to harp on about their platitudes. Prof. SCHOLZ now sees this as a test: to see if it is possible to stop this fake news campaign of the aviation industry.

Everybody can be involved in this action: Make a report to facebook that these statements are "fake news"!