Delta Air Lines said that it replaces the auxiliary power units (APU), a type of engine, on its Airbus plane to treat toxic smoke incidents that can harm the team and passengers of the airline.
The airline confirmed Thursday at CBS News that its replacement engines on more than 300 of its A320s in an initiative that started in 2022. The airline did not comment on the cost of the company, which is more complete.
Delta replaces the engines that can cause toxic smoke leakage In the airline supply of the plane cabin, posing health and safety risks to crew members and passengers.
On -board agents draw attention to the problem for years, noting their own experiences with dangerous toxins.
“I felt like I could die, and I thought, you know, I wonder what my mother will think – I went to work, and you know, I may not do it,” Vanessa Woods told CBS News in 2016 to breathe in engine smoke on a flight she was equipped.
The fuss of smoke occurs most often on the Airbus A320 family of narrow body jets, a recent survey of the Wall Street Journal found.
The breathing in toxic engine emissions can cause general problems of the nervous system, Dr. Robert Harrison, specialist in occupational medicine at the University of California San Francisco, who has treated more than 100 members of driving crew, told CBS News.
Delta said Thursday that he also explored new synthetic turbine oils from different manufacturers for its engines.
Converse to comment on the question, United CEO, Scott Kirby, recently told CBS News that it was a matter on which he “personally concentrated for more than a decade”.
United has a “proactive maintenance program” that follows oil consumption and oil pressure from the airplane engine, and proactively replaces the APU joints to prevent oil leaks and oil burns that would cause smoke in the plane cabins, said Kirby. The problem, he added, is not a concern for new planes, like Boeing 787 Dreamliner, who have a different design.
Barry Biffle, CEO of Frontier Airlines, which operates a fleet of Airbus, said that if the company followed the problem of toxic smoke, incidents occur very rarely.
