[EXPRESS.CO.UK] PASSENGER jets risk "dropping out of the sky" because airlines refuse to fit detectors that could save pilots from poisonous cabin air, a toxicologist told the Sunday Express.Professor Chris van Netten, former US government adviser, says the industry is putting profits before the health and safety of passengers or crew.
He says that by failing to fit monitors that can "easily" detect leaks of odourless, colourless and toxic carbon monoxide, there is always the risk that pilots could inhale fumes and be rendered incapable of safely flying the plane.
Professor van Netten, who is Canadian, is a world authority on bleed-air contamination.
He said: "Carbon monoxide is a relatively rare event
| How rare? Because at some point the precautions are against something that will likely never happen. |
| So could it if the Hand of God reaches down from the sky and tears off all the engines, but we don't take precautions against that, right? |
"If you can put detectors in the home, why not put them in the aircraft?"