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Old Mar 8, 2010 | 11:01 pm
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SantaClaraCyms
 
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Originally Posted by hillrider
FYI, article at http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/07/03...contamination/. The airline is AA, not Alaska, and the aircraft type...and MD-80!
From jumping around from that article, it appears that this is actually a common issue, but that there weren't that many instances of it last year.
A British study for the House of Lords found fume events in 1 of every 2,000 flights. In the U.S., airlines are required to report "fume events" to the Federal Aviation Administration. There were 108 such reports last year.http://www.wibw.com/nationalnews/hea.../53504077.html
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