Littlepage, Booth, and Leckman go against The Boeing Company in the court of Cook County Illinois with plaintiffs who are injured flight crew. The court ruled that "permitting Boeing to hide important and startling safety issues uncovered in this litigation is against public policy and Illinois law." As a consequence 1.1 million pages of Boeing documents were reviewed. Many depositions of Boeing employees: David Space, Head of Boeing's Air Quality Team (2019-11-01) confirms that it would not be unusual to expect 4.4 fume events a day tracked back to oil or hydraulic fluid. George Bates, Boeing's Air Quality Team (email, 2007-10-26): "I think we are looking for a tombstone before anyone with any horsepower is going to take interest." David Space was pushing for cabin environment monitoring. Related to this, George Bates confirms (2018-09-21) the "biggest impeding factor is the legal issue". If someone wanted to see the sensor data, it would have to be turned over. George Bates was concerned that people who were exposed to contaminants would have actual data about what they were exposed to and that they could use [it] in a court of law against Boeing. Dr. Dennis Stumpp, Occupational Medicine Physician for Boeing (2019-11-04) believes that someone can get hurt from breathing in contaminated air in an aircraft while in flight. George McEachen, Boeing's Designated Corporate Expert (2019-11-04) sees studies looking at normal flight operations where neurotoxins are found in the cabin air.
This is a presentation from the International Aircraft Cabin Air Conference 2021 (Online, 15-18 March 2021)