PRESS RELEASE: Aerotoxic Syndrome
Hearing to be held before the Paris Court of Appeal
To this day, neither airlines nor airplane manufacturers fully appreciate the risks to flight crews and passengers.
The French organization AVSA, the Association des Victimes du Syndrome Aérotoxique, is the source of the press release. According to AVSA, they must "Disseminate to the authorities and the public any pertinent information relating to the presence and spread of contaminating substances deemed hazardous to health in or outside of civil aircraft operated in public or private transport." (AVSA website)
On the 27th of September 2023, a hearing will be held before the Paris Court of Appeal concerning the admission of the Association des Victimes du Syndrome Aérotoxique (AVSA) and Air France employees as civil parties to a judicial investigation currently underway at the Paris Public Health Investigation Department on charges of :
‘Unintentional injury resulting in total incapacity to work for more than three months, as provided for and punishable under articles 222-19, 222-44, and 222-46 of the Code of Health.’
‘Endangering the lives of others through a manifestly deliberate breach of a regulatory obligation of safety or prudence, as provided for and punishable under articles 223-1, 223-18 and 223-20 of the French Criminal Code.’
(The above video is also available in English, Spanish, and German)
This legal investigation results from a complaint lodged in 2016 by two pilots of the airline easyJet, who were exposed to substances that contaminated the aircraft cabin air. The term ‘Aerotoxic Syndrome’ (← read about it) refers to the health effects of these exposures.
Read the Press Release in its entirety in French “COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE - Audience devant la Cour d’appel de Paris” HERE.
Please stay tuned (subscribe) for updates. More in-depth information about the health problems of contaminated cabin air, the reasons, medical protocols and much more on UNFILTERED (English and Spanish) and of course AVSA.(French).
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