Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines

Pilot exposes airline health risk

Mar 08, 2008

A hard-hitting documentary by a former pilot who has accused the airline industry of allowing passengers to breathe toxic fumes will be premiered this week.

Tristan Loraine, 45, of Coltstaple Lane, Horsham, began filming Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines after being forced to quit his job because he had developed ill-health associated with fumes.

The Michael Moore-style film is an expose of a situation he says is being covered up by the authorities.

It will be shown at the Rich Mix Cinema in London on Sunday, March 9, and negotiations are underway for a screening at the Duke of York Picturehouse in Brighton.

Mr Loraine, who has discussed the issue on BBC's Inside Out television show, said oil from aeroplane engines was being allowed to contaminate the cabin air circulation.

He suffered nerve damage in his fingers and feet as well as memory loss while working as a pilot. Twelve different doctors said the symptoms were a result of being exposed to poisonous chemicals in planes.

Ill health forced him to leave his work with a major British airline last year and he set up his production company, Fact Not Fiction Films, to make the documentary.

The 93-minute film follows him as he travels around the world to interview scientists, politicians and crew members and claims to uncover 30-year-old secrets from an industry which knowingly puts the health of passengers and crew at risk.

Mr Loraine said: "I made this film so the world could know what's going on.

"It's been hushed up and less than four per cent of these events are reported by crew members because of commercial pressure.

"If they did, the plane would have to be grounded."

theargus.co.uk


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Release Date: 2007   Duration: 93 min
Categories: Movies, Culture & Society, Health & Fitness, Environmental Science, Social issues, Documentary
Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines is a 2007 British investigative documentary film directed and produced by former airline captain Tristan Loraine on the subject of so-called aerotoxic syndrome. The documentary asserts that for nearly fifty years, airline passengers and crews have been supplied with unfiltered air to breathe taken directly from the engines, and shares how certain political advocacy groups have alleged that this air supply sometimes becomes contaminated with neurotoxins, carcinogens and other hazardous chemicals. The film investigates the supposed cover-up as well as alleged consequences for any passengers and crew that might have been exposed to such contaminates. The film was used by the political advocacy group GCAQE in promoting allegations of a cover-up as a reason to call for a public inquiry in March 2008. Former British Airways Captain Tristan Loraine, the producer of the film, is co-chair of the GCAQE group. Captain Loraine had his Class 1 aviation medical suspended by the UK Civil Aviation Authority, in late 2006, after the CAA had reviewed over a dozen medical reports that all stated that Captain Loraine's health had been adversely affected from exposure to

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