Historically aviation is known for improving and enhancing the design of aircraft, from the 1980’s Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) until today's advanced automation with reduced separation allowing for more traffic. Sometimes however, the system behaves in ways that the designers did not think of – an example of this is the B737 MAX, or an oil leak affecting the air quality and the people working onboard an aircraft. Very often, the design is finished by the most adaptive element in a system – the people, and we may not even notice that the design was flawed in the first place. But what assumptions lie around risk, when we talk about toxic fumes in the aircraft?
This is a presentation from the International Aircraft Cabin Air Conference 2021 (Online, 15-18 March 2021)