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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
SeanAloysiusOBrien@tenforward.social ("Headphone Jacques Clouseau") wrote:

dang this sounds like a very good reason for airplanes to have air quality sensors

Airlines have been asking Boeing to install air sensors for years. But the company decided against developing the technology. Senior Boeing engineers worried that data from sensors would prove damaging in lawsuits by sick passengers and crew members, according to internal emails and sworn depositions obtained by The Times. An internal Boeing memo described it as a “risk” to give air sensors to even one airline, according to a deposition of a Boeing executive. “Flight attendant, pilot unions, and congressional supporters could use this effort as evidence that sensors are needed and ... to drive their agenda forward to have bleed air sensors required on all aircraft,” said the 2015 memo, which Boeing turned over in litigation