Testimonies: Aerotoxic Sufferers TELL THEIR STORY
​Real life stories told by pilots, cabin crew and passengers!
Excerpts have been taken from “The Air I Breathe-It’s Classified” by Bearnairdine Beaumont, Porter Lafayette's "Fume Event. Aviation's Biggest Lie"  and John Hoyte’s book “Aerotoxic Syndrome-Aviation’s Darkest Secret”, all are Aerotoxic Syndrome sufferers themselves, whose careers were tragically ended due to on-going ill health after long-term exposure to toxic breathing air in cockpit and cabin.

Former Pilot Len Lawrence's Story 
As the aircraft accelerated along the runway during the take-off run, as the aircraft passed V1 (the speed at which the aircraft is committed to becoming airborne)  the flight deck suddenly filled with hot acrid fumes. Both myself and the other pilot were blinded. We lost all visual ......
Pedro's Story & Testimony
​When we got into the aircraft, all the crew could smell the strong odours inside the plane, after some minutes we got used to the smell and we of course passed through the cabin with the spray air freshener to try to cover the smell
The Richard Westgate Case told by Capt John Hoyte
​Since the formation of the Aerotoxic Association I have been contacted by countless aircrew and passengers, all of whom seek advice or an explanation...
​A First Officer on a CRJ tells his story
During flying we were quite often smelling unpleasant odour, specially on older aircrafts was this smell quite often present. It was more prominent after start-ups ​...
A Purser’s Story
I am just one of many. One who has suffered severe poisoning from contaminated cabin air. From many years of experience in dealing with poisoned cockpit, and cabin...
A Stewardess’s Story
​Dee Passon, who worked as cabin crew for twenty-five years, nineteen of them at British Airways, gave the following interview for this book. Dee has waived...

Evelyne's Story - yet another Cabin Crew member
What started as a fantastic job in June 2008 has now ended in a disease with an enormous impact on my life.

Another sick aviator who wished to remain anonymous
Bio monitoring measurements have shown the presence of substances at a six to fifteen times higher rate, in excess of daily exposure and higher than the…
Capt. David Hill † had been exposed to oil fumes during a flight. He and his fellow crew members were taken off the aircraft on a stretcher and straight to the ER...
Samantha Sabatino’s Story
​Samantha Sabatino and her family of four had been passengers on a flight from the United Kingdom to Florida on 1 February 2007 when they experienced a fume event.
The Montmajeur Testimony
Exposure to toxic substances on commercial aircraft ... I am not a stewardess but was a passenger on United flight 201 on December 13, 2000. The passenger cabin was filled with 
The Isherwood Family’s Story
​Karen Isherwood and her family were passengers travelling with Ryanair to Tenerife at the end of July 2011 for a two-week family holiday. Karen had a history of chest ...
Deanne Wientge - Testimony of a former US Flight Attendant
In September 2010 I went off a plane by ambulance along with three other flight attendants after helping investigate the source of a strong chemical smell, as it filled the...
Case history of sickness by a Flight-Attendant who wishes to stay anonymous Since the beginning of my work as an airhostess I have had episodes of a kind of migraine every four to eight weeks. Then I started the day with headaches, which…
For Better Or Worse: A Flight Attendants Fight With Toxic Fumes
For 27 years I was an International Flight Attendant for a Major Airline. Things seemed normal, although as my seniority increased, my health problems…
Anonymous testimonials:
​Here's a more recent collection of testimonies - all of which have been anonymised to protect the indivdual crew members from any form of harrassment or possible repercussions.   
Another Flight Attendant
“I am 44 years old and have been employed since 2000 at a large German airline as cabin staff. In summer of 2013, I experienced within two months, two so-called…
A Pilot's Flight Report (Germanwings) During the entire landing phase I felt physically very ill. My impressionwas such,thatwhile flying manuallywith the flight director, I was at the absolute upper limit of my possible abilites. Why this was the case I could not understand, but it made me feel afraid and I contemplated auto-landing, but dismissed the thought again ...
These testimonies are only a few examples and a small percentage of hundreds of reports we have 
and the list keeps growing daily …
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