Noxious-smelling fumes have poured into airline cabins and flight decks - sparking alerts on eight Manchester Airport flights, The Manchester Evening News reports. And on one flight pilots donned emergency oxygen masks, while another air crew felt 'light headed' after take-off, according to official reports obtained by the newspaper
Passengers and three cabin attendants reported feeling so unwell from 'noxious fumes' with a 'gas-type' smell on a third plane that a full security alert was triggered. Paramedics were only allowed on board the jet following an emergency landing after the Army was alerted and it was held for 90 minutes by armed police.
The Department for Transport said 116 'contaminated air events' had been reported to the Civil Aviation Authority in 2007. The newspaper has revealled that eight of these happened on flights to or from Manchester, according to CAA documents.
News of the incidents comes days after the government said it was probing claims that contaminated cabin air was making passengers and pilots ill. |
