The Aerotoxic Logbook (ATLB) in English (EN)

1st International "Clean Cabin Air Day" 2020

There are  "International Days" for many things: freedom of the press, children, the forest, disabled people, etc. Now the Patient Initiative p-coc.com has decided to declare an "International Clean Cabin Air Day", which from now on will always take place on April 3rd.

We have known about the problems for decades (see www.ansTageslicht.de/cabinairchronology - in EN), as well as about the regularity of fume-event incidents (see www.ansTageslicht.de/incidents - also in EN), and there are more and more affected people who become terminally ill.

According to the Lufthansa Group, such incidents happen on every 2,000 flights = 1:2000. If one converts this to daily or weekly flight operations, this amounts to 10 fume events per week. Almost two every day.

P-coc now wants to tackle this problem and generate worldwide attention for this still unsolved problem. https://www.facebook.com/groups/865783380264164/More on their Facebook page.

EASA focuses on "cabin air "

Over two days, lectures and discussions were held at EASA’s in Cologne; you can read about them here in the official program booklet. On the podium: the "usual suspects" in the form of the airlines, manufacturers and some representatives from the scientific scene, who have often pointed out that there is no danger whatsoever from the whole problem. 

However, there is now no longer any dispute about whether such fume events occur at all. Lufthansa concedes that - as they have done for some years now - such occurrences happen at a frequency of 0.05%, in other words: 1.85 fume events daily calculated over all LH flights. So far, nothing new. 

What is new, however, is the fact that the "Patienten Initiative" – (www.p-coc.com) was also present. Although their submission, a presentation “from the point of view of those affected” was not accepted, questions were allowed. 

Apparently, P-CoC.com made use of this opportunity and startled the industry by asking very specific questions. There now seems to be some concern that the various diverse (aerotoxic) initiatives will unite and thus will have a more significant public impact. 

The fact that the crew is always newly assembled for each flight, i.e. meaning that there are no well-rehearsed teams, has so far proven to be a sure barrier to the development of solidarity amongst pilots and flight crews.

Lufthansa e.g. employs around 20,000 flight attendants; however, this could now experience changes due to P-CoC.com and their planned activities. 

The British Capt. John HOYTE, the founder of aerotoxic.org and himself once a pilot, has issued a press release on the event.