NOXIOUS SMELLS IN CABINS AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT

Really bad smelling fumes have found their way into cabins and flight decks - igniting alerts on eight Manchester Airport Flights, as reported by the Manchester Evening news. One pilot let down th eoxygen masks whilst another flight reported that they felt light headed after takeoff.
Passengers and three cabin attendants reported feeling so unwell from 'noxious fumes' with a 'gas-type' smell on a third plane that a full security alert was triggered. Paramedics were only allowed on board the jet following an emergency landing after the Army was alerted and it was held for 90 minutes by armed police.

The Department for Transport said 116 'contaminated air events' had been reported to the Civil Aviation Authority in 2007. It has been revealled that 8 of these happened on flights to or from Manchester, as reported in CAA documents.

News of this incidents comes days after the government said it was probing claims that contaminated cabin air was making passengers and pilots ill.

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