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Toxic Air Plane Crash Warning
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] PASSENGER jets risk "dropping out of the sky" because airlines refuse to fit detectors that could save pilots from poisonous cabin air, a toxicologist told the Sunday Express.

Professor Chris van Netten, former US government adviser, says the industry is putting profits before the health and safety of passengers or crew.

He says that by failing to fit monitors that can "easily" detect leaks of odourless, colourless and toxic carbon monoxide, there is always the risk that pilots could inhale fumes and be rendered incapable of safely flying the plane.

Professor van Netten, who is Canadian, is a world authority on bleed-air contamination.

He said: "Carbon monoxide is a relatively rare event
How rare? Because at some point the precautions are against something that will likely never happen.
but it's an acute one that can bring an aircraft down.
So could it if the Hand of God reaches down from the sky and tears off all the engines, but we don't take precautions against that, right?
"When it happens you want to know what is going on because it is incapacitating and you want to be able to flush it out.

"If you can put detectors in the home, why not put them in the aircraft?"
Posted by: Fred 2013-02-04
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