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Aerotoxic Syndrome: Aviation’s Best-Kept Secret Continued from page 79 convenient countdown clock, along victims might be saved from the with other unique, balanced agony such as what | endured, few have the ability to understand evidence, can be found on the _ particularly in mid-2005 immediately the enormity of the issue and help Aerotoxic Association's website after | stopped flying. If one press for technical solutions. (www.aerotoxic. org) for the media to considers committing suicide, then The BBC mentioned Aerotoxic use as a handy peg for their next something has clearly gone very ean act wean few have the ability to understand the enormity of the issue and help press for technical solutions. The BBC mentioned Aerotoxic Syndrome for the first time ever on 24 September 2009, after conclusive proof from a doctor had established a link between serious ill health in pilots and breathing oil fumes. Quick as a flash, the establishment replied that this finding was not "peer reviewed". In November 2007, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee helpfully recommended that the chemicals in fume events be "urgently" identified. The BBC, following an interview on 15 September 2009, was able to establish that Cranfield University, which enjoys very close relations with BAE Systems and other highly ethical aerospace companies, would publish these urgent results in six months’ time, by 15 March 2010. A report. However, it is feared that academics, who love the "never- ending research" approach, would prefer to take another 10 years to arrive at the precautionary conclusion that breathing oil fumes in a confined space on balance "may" be harmful. The trouble is that acceptance of Aerotoxic Syndrome would run the risk of ruining the aerospace and medical industries. It would also expose many research universities which are really fronts for denial and are very likely in the pockets of other related industries. In 2007, frustrated by overwhelming evidence, silence, denial and lack of a job, I started the Aerotoxic Association so that other wrong. When will aircrew and passengers be told the truth of what is in their abnormal, generally unsafe, cabin air? Supposedly on 15 March 2010.00 About the Author: Captain John Hoyte, a former commercial airline pilot and BAe 146 Training Captain, is Chairman of the Aerotoxic Association, a support group for sufferers of Aerotoxic Syndrome. Its website, http://www.aerotoxic.org, contains detailed information on the syndrome as well as news and articles, reports and evidence, testimonies from victims and more details of Captain Hoyte's story. Captain Hoyte can be contacted at info@aerotoxic.org. In 80 * NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com