In the Media

In the Media

• Aerospace Global News september 2026:
  • Former airline captains tell MPs of career-ending aircraft cabin fume exposure
  • Fume events: How to report smoke or smells in an aircraft cabin
  • Portugal targets aircraft fume event blind spot with AI and sensors
  • Australian pilots detect cabin air particle spikes without fume event reports
• The Wall Street Journal, September 17 2026:Toxic-Fume complaints ground planes from Airbus venture
• Aerospace Global News, August 2026: Study links chemicals found in aircraft fume events to reproductive health risks
• On August 26 2026, TV1 Info published an article about a Court verdict that recognises breast cancer in a French stewardess as an ocuupational disease (here is a copy of the original French article)    (Here is the English translation by Fly Aware Foundation)
• Keep in Touch (magazine of Dutch Retired Airline Pilots Association VGV), June 2026: Report on a Fly Aware Foundation lecture on Aerotoxic Syndrome, by Edo Brandt
• March 23, 2026: Open Letter by AVSA on Cabin Air and Employer Responsibility
• On March 16 2026, Aerospaceglobalnews.com reported the formation of an All Party Parliamentary Group that will perform further research into  toxic fumes in aircraft cabins
• On February 2026, based on French case law, European Cabin Crew Association EurECCA published an interesting Position Paper: Breakthrough in aerotoxic fumes dossier after French Court decision
• Press Release by AVSA, February 2026: Definite recognition of Aerotoxic Syndrome by French Court
• New York Post, December 22 2025: Toxic fumes on planes blamed for pilot deaths, suicides and brain damage: report
• Wall Street Journal, December 22 2025: I’m Worried About Toxic Fumes on My Upcoming Flight—What Can I Do?
• Wall Street Journal, December 21 2025: He Was Poisoned.’ Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew
• Wall Street Journal, November 18 2025: Toxic-Fume Leaks Prompt Airlines to Push for Less Hazardous Engine Oils
• Charlotte Observer, October 30 2025: On flight to Charlotte, toxic fumes got into cabin. Their liver changed forever
• Luchtvaartnieuws, October 6 2025: American Congress urges FAA to address nerve agent in cockpit and cabin
• CBS News, September 26 2025: Delta Air Lines is replacing APU’s on Airbus A320 aircraft to address toxic fumes issue
• Wall Street Journal, September 26 2025: Delta replaces engine units in Effort to address toxic-Fume Surge on planes
• Wall Street Journal, September 25 2025: Law makers urge FAA to act on fumes leaking into commercial aircraft (full article behind pay wall)
• On September 25 2025, two American Congress member, Chris Pappas en Greg Stanton (members of ’the House  Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’), published a Press Release, in which they urged FAA to “Immediate action to address aircraft Toxic Fumes Events, Protect Passengers”
• The Hill, September 15 2025: Toxic jet engine fumes sickening crews, passengers: report
• CBS News, September 15 2025 (video): Fume incidents on airplanes raise health concerns for passengers, crew members
• Forbes, September 15 2025: FAA and Airlines slow to address toxic jet Fume Events on Planes
• American magazine People, September 15 2025: Toxic fumes that can leak into aircraft cabin are posing serious health risks to plane passengers and crew: report
• Good Morning America video, September 15 2025: ( same video as ABC News)
• ABC News, September 15 2025: Toxic fumes leaking airplane cabins, report
• The New York Post, September 14 2025: Scores of pilots, crew poisoned by mid-air fumes suffer nerve and brain damage akin to NFL players: report
• American TV channel KTXL, September 15 2025 : Toxic jet engine fumes sickening crews, passengers
• Business, September 14 2025: What you need to know about fume events on airplanes
• An extensive, in-depth article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on September 14 2025: Toxic Fumes are leaking into airplanes sickening Crews and Passengers
• RIVM, June 2025: Annual Report 2024 National Advisory Group Cabin Air
• Press conference after the Paris Air Show, on June 23 2025, organised by the GCAQE: “Major developments on cabin air quality”
• Flightglobal, May 22 2025: “2024 Aircraft Cabin Air Conference predictions become reality”
• Luchtvaartnieuws, February 17 2025: Deadly Incident at Swiss raises Concern about toxic Fumes in Aircraft cabin
• Press Release by GCAQE, January 9 2025: Airbus A220-300 event of 23 December 2024 again highlights the fail-dangerous nature of breathing air supply systems on passenger jet aircraft and the urgent need for change.
• Luchtvaartnieuws, October 12 2024: TCP-free engine oil possibly a breakthrough in the fight against Aerotoxic Syndrome
• RIVM, June 2024: Annual report 2023 National Advisory Group Cabin Air
• Journal of hazardous materials, May 2024: Organophosphate toxicity patterns: A new approach for assessing organophosphate neurotoxicity
• Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, April 2024: The role of nanoparticals in bleed air in the etiology of Aerotoxic Syndrome: A review of cabin air-quality studies of 2003-2023, by neurologist G. Hageman, P. van Broekhuizen en J. Nihom.
• Youtube, promovideo Aeroparts about VOC-Ozon converters, January 2024: ECS Bleed Air Test
• Elsevier online magazine Neurotoxicology, December 2023: The role of carbon monoxide in aerotoxic syndrome, by neurologist G. Hageman, P. van Broekhuizen and J. Nihom.
• Luchtvaartnieuws, October 17 2023: Pilot Association sounds the alarm about dangerous Fumes in the cockpit
• le Parisien, September 30 2023:  Study warns for the risk of contaminated air in airplanes
• Press Release AVSA, September 18 2023: Hearing before the Paris Court of Appeal
• Luchtvaartnieuws, September 12, 2023: Interview with Robert Swankhuizen
• Luchtvaartnieuws, September 7, 2023: “Politics Look into Health Effects of Bleedair“
• Facebook group ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’, September 2023: “the Health Risks of Airplane Fume Events“
• Aero.de, March 2023: “Sensoren sollen Kabinenluft permanent überwachen”
• LA Times, March 2023: “Toxic fumes on board airplanes? Airlines may finally have to do something about it”
• Cabin Air Safety Act of 2023
• Spanish Airline Pilote Association SEPLA on September 16 2022 published this article:  “Sepla calls on aircraft manufacturers to take steps to make air travel safer”
• magazine Advances in Toxicology (Elsevier), July 2022: “Aerotoxic Syndrome: a new occupational disease caused by contaminated cabin air?”, by neurologist G. Hageman, S.J. Mackenzie Ross, J. Nihom and G. van der Laan
• Science Direct, April 2022: “The Lung in Aeroptoxic Syndrome”, by JorgeRoiga, Susan Michaelis and Jonathan Burdon
• Finax News, April 2022: Boeing settles “toxic air” case hours before the trial
• LA Times, March 31 2022: “After Times investigation, Congress is moving to curb toxic Fumes on airplanes“
• Press release from USA Senator Dianne Feinstein, March 29 2022: “Feinstein, Blumenthal, Garamandi, Bicameral Group Introduce Bill to Protect Airline Passengers, Crew from Toxic Cabin Air“
• Journal of Biological Physics & Chemistry, December 2021: Adverse synergies between inhaled carbon monoxide and tricresyl phosphate in aircraft cabin air, by prof. Jeremy J. Ramsden
• Aerospace Magazine, December 2021: Oil Fumes, Flight Safety, and the NTSB, by Judith Anderson and Dieter Scholz
• Luchtvaartnieuws, November 17 2021 (Dutch only): Ook in kamer zorgen over cabinelucht; EASA gelast weer onderzoek
• Dutch Magazine Elsevier, november 2021: In vitro hazard characterization of simulated aircraft cabin bleed-air contamination in lung models using an air-liquid interface (ALI) exposure system
• American news channel WSVN, November 15 2021: Toxic Takeoff? Flight attendants, former pilot, sound alarm over ‘fume events’ on planes
• Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, September 2021: “An issue with gas turbines that no one wishes to talk about but is ever present in cabin air“, by Graeme A. Davidson
• ENDS report augustus 2021: ‘I couldn’t feel my hands and legs’: Is toxic air poisoning pilots, passengers and crew?(Evelyn van den Heuvel)
• Dutch TV channel NOS program “Nieuwsuur”,  July 24 2021 (2nd subject, Dutch only): Hoe veilig is vliegen met de Deltavariant?
• Dutch local TV channel Rijnmond TV, July 12 2021: interview with Evelyn van den Heuvel (Dutch only)
• Dutch TV programme Zembla, juni 21 2021: Stewardess die ziek werd van vliegen, wint rechtszaak van UWV over uitkering (Dutch only)
• On April 29 2021 the Central Court of Appeal ruled in the case of an ex-KLM flight attendant who became incapacitated for work by the Aerotoxic Syndrome. This Ruling is of great importance, also for other victims of AS, as this Ruling for the first time implies a (subtle) recognition of AS!  On June 21 2021 Dutch newspaper NRC and the NOS news bulletin extensively brought the subject to the attention of the public.
• Aerospace, April 2021: Sources of Onboard Fumes and Smoke Reported by U.S. Airlines by Judith Anderson
• Aviation Today, March 2021: New Aircraft Environment Sensor Certified for Boeing 737
• TV-station WBRC, January 27 2021: On Your Side Investigations: Potentially toxic fumes created problems on U.S. flights in 2020 almost 150 times
• Illinois Injury Law News, January 6 2021: Toxic Cabin Air? New Information Reveals the Potentially Neurotoxic Effects of Contaminated Airplane Cabin Air
• Flight Global, December 22 2020: EASA embarks on comprehensive project to examine cabin-air toxicity risk
• LA Times documentary on December 17 2020: “We are slowly being poisoned”
• October 19 2020, Press Release from GCAQE: European Workers & Passengers Welcome the Completion of the Standard on Aircraft Cabin Air Quality
• September 20 2020, Mail Online: How Covid spreads on long haul flights: Single passenger infect 15 others on 10-hours trip to Vietnam
• July 31 2020, Captain Andrew Myers – Workers’ Compensation Board Outcome
• On July 4 2020, German TV program Nano (on 3SAT) presented this interesting documentary about the alleged air quality on board of aircraft (Ge/En subtitles)
• An Interesting article appeared in June 2020 with our partner Aerotoxic Team Network: “Why Airline CEO’s are obsessing about Aircraft Pure Air…“ 
• Politico.eu, March 2020: Bad air: Pilots worldwide complain of unsafe cabin fumes
• Time Magazine published this article about the fear among crew members of spreading the Coronavirus (March 2020)
• Interview on BloombergTV with Christopher Dobbing, CEO of Cambridge Mask Company, March 5 2020: “Demand is booming”.
• German TV channel RTL, February 11 2020: Ex-Condor-Pilot klagt an: Krank durch giftige Cockpit-Luft
• Computer Training Systems blog, Feb 13 2020: How a Fume Event may lead to permanent damage
• German TV ARD documentary, January 28 2020 (English subtitles): “Report Mainz”
• BBC podcast Business Matters by Mike Powell, 1st of January 2020: Aerotoxicity (2nd part, starting at 26:30 min. Login is NOT required)
• @ConsumerFrank Podcast about the new European Standard for Cabin Air Quality: Cabin air Quality – what’s in a letter? Dec 2019
• Article on MRO-network.com (Maintenance, repair & Overhaul) dec 2019: Improved Systems for Cleaning Cabin Air
• Article by Dutch Association of Aviation Technicians NVLT on October 14 2019: How to deal with harmful organophosphates in oil and Skydroll during aircraft maintenance
• Call to action on Eurecca’s website, September 2019: Sign this petition for clean cabin air!
• scientific magazine Clinical Toxicology August 2019: “Aerotoxic Syndrome, discussion of possible diagnostic criteria“, by neurologist G. Hageman et al.
• View from the Wing, July 2019: Is Airbus doing enough to stop the Fumes that are making people sick?
• Eurecca is fully behind the into  Aerotoxic Syndrome by the Association Toxicologie-Chimie (April 2019). Read the full scientific report by ATC here
• It’s in the air that I breath, Bearnairdine Beaumont (may 2019)
• Scientific magazine Clinical Toxicology, May 2019: “Three patients with probable aerotoxic syndrome“, by neurologist G. Hageman et al.
• Podcast series with interviews about Aerotoxic Syndrome, by the Belgian journalist/writer  Chriselda Barretto. In episode 6 of  2nd of  May 2019: Ap van de Kraats en Annie de Vries from Stichting Fly Aware. Listen also to earlier episodes, with Daniel Dumalin, Willen Felderhof, Charlie Bass and John Hoyte.
• Study reveals permanent brain damage among pilots and cabin crew, Aviation24.be, April 16 2019
• Daniel Dumalin’s Research into Brain Damage in flight crew, April 8 2019
• British union supports 51 court cases against 5 different airlines, March 28 2019
• Highly informative radio documentary by Willem Felderhof about Aerotoxic Syndrome (duration 2:05 hrs), with Angel Brain, Charlie Bass, after 1:25 hr joined by Stichting Fly Aware’s Ap van de Kraats and Annie de  Vries, March 24 2019.
• BBC World Services, January 1st 2019:

  Aerotoxicity, the hidden dangers of flying, excellent radio documentary (about 50 min) about Aerotoxic Syndrome.

• Aviation Herald article, November 16 2018: New Concerns Raised Over “Toxic” Cabin Air After Troubling Death of Airline Captain
• News item about contaminated cabin air, November 12 2018: Tv station WXYZ
• Shocking documentary on CBS San Francisco, November 16 2018: Many Jet Airliners unequipped to Filter Toxic Air
• VTM nieuws, November 2018: Noise in the media about Fume Events in Belgium
• Open Letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, October 18 2018: “Toxic Air in Public Transport Aircraft Cabin”.
• Unite the Union announced new instructions for the Coroners in England and Wales, October 18 2018.
• RTL News, October 17 2018: Melania Trump’s plane forced to turn around after ‘mechanical issue’ fills cabin with smoke.
• Daily Mail, August 9 2018: Stale cockpit air may be affecting your pilot’s performance
• From the website for cabin crew www.savvystews.com, July 18 2018: “Alaska Airlines confirms cabin air contamination”.
• Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, on June 4 2018: Onderzoek naar zieke piloten en stewardessen
• Ans Tageslicht.de is a whistle blowers network at a German University for Journalism. On May 25 2018, they published the following article:  Krank durch Arbeit. Oder: das Schattenreich von Arbeitsmedizin und Gesetzlicher Unfallversicherung
• Letter from BASSA to Alex Cruz (CEO of British Airways) on May 25 2018, subject: BASSA: Crew and Passenger exposure to organophosphates on aircraft.
• The Independant, May 24 2018: International Investigation into the Effects of Toxic Air on Planes demanded by Health Association
• Tagesschau, May 23 2018: Wenn Piloten der Job stinkt
• On April 26 2018, TV2 in France published an impressive documentary: L’air des avions est-il toxique?
• In March 2018, David Learmount wrote an interesting article in the magazine Aerospace about contaminated cabin air and Pall filters: Clearing the Air
• On April 4 2018, Aviation magazine Aviation Herald published a shocking article about a serious Fume Event which took place in July 2015 and the manipulation that took place later on to keep the whole incident away from public focus.
• Article of Dutch NOS, February 5 2018: Griep of Koolmonoxidevergiftiging? Zelfs artsen slaan soms de plank mis
• Article in Dutch newspaper “de Telegraaf ” of January 25 2018: Duizenden mensen ziek van vliegtuiggas
• the London Economic September 20 2017: British union Unite demands measures by airlines
• NOS on September 20 2017: Easyjet to fit filters and sensors on all aircraft, to prevent any toxic substances from entering the cabin
• Dutch newspaper de Telegraaf September 18 2018: Gifgasfilters in Vliegtuig
• Richard Westgate Story British Airways (2017): Family poisoned BA co-pilot claim Aviation Industry
• Eenvandaag Binnenland February 2017: Sick stewardess sues KLM
• The Dutch TV Program Zembla has repeatedly dedicated a full episode to this problem
• Publication of Dutch Cabin Crew Union VNC, 2016: Kwaliteit cabinelucht en gezondheidsklachten
• In 2016, this documentary was aired on German television ARD1: