Air Passengers (Chemical Exposure)
Mr. Tyler:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether UK airline captains
experiencing cockpit or cabin air contamination event serious enough for pilots
to use emergency oxygen have a responsibility to inform passengers to which
chemicals they might have been exposed. [202745]
Charlotte Atkins: Pilots are required to use oxygen as a precautionary
measure in all cases of suspected cockpit air abnormalities irrespective of
severity of event. Flight crew are not professionally qualified to verify the
cause of air contamination or identify what chemicals if any, passengers may
have been exposed to. The captain has discretion to inform passengers of an
event.