The European Aviation Safety
Agency had tasked German researchers to perform a thorough investigation of the
quality of air in 60 commercial flights during the 17 months to uncover answers
to the questions whether passengers and crew are duly exposed to toxic fumes
in-flight.
The investigation comes after
Unite, which represents 20,000 air cabin crew members in the United Kingdom,
had called for air quality to be monitored on all flights.
Unite also backs 14 individual
legal cases against British Airways and other companies for potentially
shortening their lives due to toxic fumes.
Meanwhile, Boeing research had
confirmed that cabin air is safe to breathe.
“Cabin air is safe to breathe,”
Boeing said. “Research [has] consistently shown that cabin air meets health and
safety standards and that contaminant levels are generally low.”
It was in the 1950s when
contaminated bleed air became a large issue, according to the Global Cabin Air
Quality executive lobby group. The group said that such events are under-reported.
Studies in the past have shown
little progress in confirming contaminated air bleed. Duke University in the
United States found genetic variation affects the probability a person could have
adverse effects inhaling organophosphate toxins in the cabin.
