EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background
1.
The Senate Rural & Regional Affairs & Transport References Committee commenced an inquiry on a range of airspace and air safety issues in early 1999. The Committee was aware at the time it started its inquiry that there had been a history of complaints concerning the quality and effects of cabin air quality in the BAe 146 aircraft.
2.
As submissions were progressively received on the reference it became apparent that a large proportion of submissions were directed at issues raised by paragraph (d) of the terms of reference dealing with any link between air safety and cabin air quality on the BAe 146 aircraft.
3.
As a result the Committee decided to hold a separate inquiry on the issue.
4.
The Committee's report and recommendations result from that inquiry.
5.
The general issue of cabin air quality on commercial passenger aircraft is a matter of growing international interest, and is currently the subject of a number of investigations, assessments and inquiries in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Unites States.
6.
These inquiries are directed at determining how a variety of factors so to combine to affect the aircraft cabin environment on aircraft. The further aim of these inquiries is to re-examine whether current regulatory requirements and technical standards are adequate in relation to a range of health standards including cabin air quality.
The BAe 146 - Cabin Air Quality
7. The focus of this inquiry concerned factors in aircraft design and engineering, particularly in relation to the BAe 146, which govern cabin air quality, and how poor quality cabin air quality can occur. It should be noted that, while its focus has predominantly been on the BAe 146, the question of cabin air quality has also been raised with respect to other aircraft types. Poor quality cabin air includes air affected by:
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Unpleasant odours
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Stale air
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Inadequate circulation of fresh air
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Fumes
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Smoke
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Chemical contamination
8.
Drawing on the submissions received by the Committee from air operators, pilots, cabin crew, airlines, regulatory and air safety authorities and the aircraft's maker, British Aerospace, it is clear that, the problem with the BAe 146 took a considerable time to identify and to address.
9.
It is conceded generally that cabin air in the BAe 146 has been, to use the most commonly used description, 'smelly' since its introduction into passenger service in the mid-1980's. The cabin air on the aircraft has been an identified as a persistent problem since the early 1990's.
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