BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS
A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since.
He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE.
What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried.
Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight.
When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse.
This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long.
In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them.
@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010.
A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015.
France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew.
John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years.
Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything.
BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected.
John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record.
This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation.
If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments.
I will add media coverage links in the comments section.
Sources:
@AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association)
@BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan)
gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive)
@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air.
@heraldtweets@WSJ@FlightGlobal@TheCanaryUK
@the_ecologist
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Carney admits on tape: When voters blocked his ESG plans, "We" Central Bankers acted like "Regulators" going around the voters through the BACK DOOR!
Manipulating fossil fuel prices by withholding lending.
Now he's PM!๐
I had the pleasure of introducing @cenovus CEO Jon McKenzie at the Global Energy Show today, and while the media has focused on his description of Pathways as "unfinanceable", his comments were more nuanced and the whole speech was a banger. My top ๐ฅ quotes from his speech: /1
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ โ๐ ๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
Roseanne Milburn, 61, of Winnipeg, had a routine procedure turn into an amputation โ not because the surgery failed, but because Canadaโs government-run system couldnโt find her a bed.
A surgeon at Winnipegโs Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back.
There was no bed at HSC. So she sat at Concordia with an ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ, waiting for the system to make room.
As the video narrator put it: โ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ข, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ-๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ-๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข.โ
By the time a bed opened, the wound had rotted past saving. The doctors told her the leg couldnโt be salvaged. On a Friday in December, Roseanne Milburn lost her ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ โ over a missing hospital bed.
This is not a freak accident. It is the predictable output of a system that rations care by making people wait.
In 2025, the median Canadian waited ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ from a GP referral to actual treatment (Fraser Institute). For orthopedic surgery โ the exact category Milburn needed โ the median wait is ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ. Nearly a full year. By design.
That is 222 percent longer than the 9.3-week wait Canadians faced in 1993 (Fraser Institute). The system isnโt getting better. Itโs getting slower โ and the waiting list itself becomes the rationing mechanism.
Defenders call it โ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆโ. It is not free. Roseanne Milburn paid for it. She paid with her leg.
Every politician selling โ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ญโ is selling this โ the bed that never opens, the specialist who never comes, the wound that turns black while a bureaucrat shuffles a list.
๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐๐.
TRUTH BOMBS ON FIFA FROM DECLAN HILL "Well, first of all, FIFA is an organized crime group. That's the words of the Southern District of New York. A court has banged a gavel and said that group is full of racketeers, mobsters, convicted war criminals."
"And this is the group that we are handing tens of millions, hundreds of millions. And by the time the bill comes in, over a billion dollars Canadian taxpayers Money to do 10 soccer games."
"We've never actually had a debate in Canada... (politicians) will not allow a debate."
"They're suspending our civil liberties in much of these areas around the World Cup."
"...This, this is the number they're giving us today. They gave us other numbers last week. They gave us other numbers when they paid a bid for this World Cup. I guarantee you, Natasha, and please hold me to this... It's not going to stop at 82 million."
"It's going to be far north of a billion dollars because there's a whole bunch of money that those governments, federal, provincial and city have said we're not going to tell you."
"We should have had this debate two, three, five years ago when the hosting was given to us, when the decision was made for us to do this."
Watch it all! @declan_hill
Worst energy shock in history transpiring; inventories about to bottom; Germany buying BC LNG; South Korea, India and China all come to Canada in the same two week period asking for oil and gas; TSX O&G index up 35% YTD.
The Canadian Left:
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From @nationalbank : Canadaโs ranking for reserves of selected commodities ๐ช
I knew all of this except natural gas, which must be based on new resource quantifications. #2 is a big jump ๐
This video is PEAK comedy gold. I felt this in my SOUL. ๐
โCanโt stand these fckn bicyclistsโ โ my brother, you just narrated my morning commute.
He nails it: Grown-ass men in skin-tight neon spandex outfits looking like a pack of radioactive Power Rangers, riding three-wide like itโs the Peloton Championships on a residential road. No oneโs handing out medals at the cul-de-sac, Kyle. Youโre not transporting a heart for surgery. Youโre just expensive, slow-moving road geese with $10k carbon fiber attitudes.
One? Fine. Eight? Thatโs a tactical formation. Thatโs how civilizations fall.
Iโm honking, Iโm crying, Iโm in agreement. Save us from the Lycra Legion. He nails every reason I canโt stand the bicycle militia.
Canada Pension Plan Investments put $145M in China social media co. used by Beijing to target Conservatives like Joe Tay, Conservative candidate for Don Valley North and Hong Kong rights activist who was forced to suspend his 2025 campaign over death threats.
https://t.co/wdws78Rc5p
Canada Pension Plan Investments put $145M in China social media co. used by Beijing to target Conservatives like Joe Tay, Conservative candidate for Don Valley North and Hong Kong rights activist who was forced to suspend his 2025 campaign over death threats.
https://t.co/wdws78Rc5p
Quebec has collected provincial taxes since 1957 and its own pension since 1965. The Quebec Pension Plan now has a $500 billion fund for 6 million insured, while the Canada Pension Plan has $700 billion for 22 million insured. #Quebec#Finance#Pensions
Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. ๐๐๐๐
(๐ฅ@ChrisVanVliet)
Mike's Comment
Oil shortages caused by the Iranian conflict expose a major flaw in the pipeline debate that our politicians donโt want to admit. Watch now and sign up for 5 Minutes with Mike today!
https://t.co/xHFrqSdj74
The UAE is building a ~1.4MM Bbl/d, 370km pipeline costing ~$4BN USD, started in 2025 and onstream in 2027. Canada aims to potentially build a 1MM Bbl/d pipeline, to cost ~$40BN, take 8+years, and is tying it to an obsolete/costly $30BN Pathways project. See the difference???
โPeople have lost sight of what education is supposed to be,โ charter school founder Caylan Ford told me. In 2022, she founded Canada's first tuition-free classical charter school with little more than a dozen teachers.
Since then Alberta Classical Academy has grown to 1,500 students across three campuses in Calgary and Edmonton, with thousands more on the waitlist.
โWe typically have enough applicants for kindergarten that we could fill 30 to 50 kindergarten classes per year. We just don't have the facilities to accommodate that at this stage,โ Ford said.
Canadian parents crave the classical education Alberta Classical Academy provides: A lot of the parents who come to us are absolutely desperate. โฆ The existence of this school is like an answered prayer.โ
@caylanford