Accident: Alaska Airlines B734 at Sitka on Dec 20th 2008, ground power unit causes ca

[Sedona16]

This morning we had a bunch of people get stinging eyes from deicing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_...icing_solution_sickens_plane_at_seatac-1.html

 

[Old School 737]

News is now saying 2 critical condition. I would think the guy doing the spraying gets it way worse.

 

[Baze]

The hits keep on coming!

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

News is now saying 2 critical condition. I would think the guy doing the spraying gets it way worse.

What? I had AA spray deice into our running APU last year whilst sitting at the gate. Smoked up the entire cabin. PAX and FAs almost popped the slides (and I'm not sure they shouldn't have).

Smelled bad and the FAs had a bit of a headache so they went back to the hotel. No one was in critical condition and they got a full dose in the back.

Curious.

 

[igneousy2]

What? I had AA spray deice into our running APU last year whilst sitting at the gate. Smoked up the entire cabin. PAX and FAs almost popped the slides (and I'm not sure they shouldn't have).

Smelled bad and the FAs had a bit of a headache so they went back to the hotel. No one was in critical condition and they got a full dose in the back.

Curious.

I don't know that it makes a difference as I don't know the facts of either case, however, I do know that there is a big difference between getting sprayed with type-1 vs. type-4. Type-4 is some nasty stuff. Had a flight attendant get taken off on a stretcher on an EMB-145 after being shot in the face with type-4. The door seals on the EMB were/are really bad and if they hit the right spot under pressure it would go right into the cabin.

Later

 

[F/O]

This can happen with external AC carts, especially the broken down ones they use at the cheap-a$$ airlines most of us fly at. It has happened to me. I left the jet for a few minutes, came back, and there was a nice exhaust smell lingering....like the smell of a 70s era car or truck exhaust. A lot of this old equipment still uses old Ford V8 engines and the like.