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2004-02-02 Home Front

Airlines Made the Decision to Cancel Flights: US officials

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Posted by rkb 2004-02-02 11:10:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If a plane crashes with bio on it, wouldn't it be burned? Certainly lessen the danger?

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-2-2 2:16:37 PM|| 2004-2-2 2:16:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 With a Bio attack, what they are worried about is releasing the agent on the plane or in the terminal. You infect passengers and let them scatter carrying the virus with them. Effects won't show up for days or weeks. By then many more may be affected.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-2 3:54:18 PM|| 2004-2-2 3:54:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Steve White, a pulmonologist as I recall, may have a thought on this as well. Due to the significant offloading of compressor bleed air during the flight, and the fact that the air is vented from the center of the cabin to the outside wall rather than front to back; it is very difficult to spread an infection on an airplane. If my FAA Human Factors training is correct, even on 16 hour flights there has never been documentation of a contagious disease spread beyond the row in front or back of the source. Not sure what effect the extreme low humidity would have on transmission. Would likely be hostile to non-spore forming contagions.

Posted by Anonymous4me 2004-2-2 9:03:27 PM|| 2004-2-2 9:03:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the terminal's more of a worry than the plane. Inside the terminal, you could infect people going to dozens of cities.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-2 11:07:05 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-2-2 11:07:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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