As the British tabloid The Sun reports, there was a recent incident on a British Airways flight. Accordingly, the pilots of a flight from New Castle to London complained of a “rotten smell” in the cockpit and requested help before they arrived at Heathrow.
After the pilots noticed the smell, they reportedly put on oxygen masks. Nevertheless, it is said that they became noticeably sicker.
After landing at the London hub, a team of security experts took the two crew members to hospital after a short check. The London Ambulance Service said they were initially treated for smoke inhalation at the scene and then immediately transported away. There was apparently concern that they may have inhaled toxic chemicals.
A source told The Sun: “This was a shocking incident. The immediate concern is of course for the two pilots. But also concern about what could have happened if the two cockpit crews had been drugged while they were still on the scene Sitting at the controls of a crowded jet at 25,000 feet. That’s out of the question.”
What exactly happened on board British Airways shuttle flight 13C now needs to be clarified. The paper reports that such an incident at British Airways is not an isolated case. “Hundreds” of similar situations have occurred in recent years, the report said.
The Unite union told the Sun that the airline was trying to distort the nature of these cases and “manipulate” statistics “to downplay how widespread the problem really is in the industry.”
When asked, the airline told the newspaper: “The flight landed safely and the customers got off normally after a small technical problem with the aircraft.”
