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This month’s update begins with news of a new book (release -15th September 2025) written by Sam Thorne.
A review by Bearnairdine Beaumont
O4 September 2025
‘NEW Book: 'Silent Skies'
Dark Secrets, Betrayal and a Cover-Up in the French Alps
Fast-paced and gripping, this book will have you on the edge of your seat and not let you go until you have read the very last word!
The novel centres on the crash of a passenger plane in the French Alps. Within hours, an official narrative develops: the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane.
The media, the judiciary, and politicians readily adopt this interpretation, and the international public finds its culprit.
When a plane belonging to the German airline Germanair crashes in the French Alps, 150 people die.
Sophie Thalberg, a journalist in Berlin, loses her partner, Alexander, in the crash. The double burden—private loss and public blame—drives her into an existential conflict. Her struggle for Alexander, whom she knew as a person, and the image the public paints of him, forms the emotional heart of the novel.
SILENT SKIES is a breathtaking, spellbinding investigative thriller about the ultimate price of a cover-up: 150 human lives.
For Sophie Thalberg, a Berlin journalist and the co-pilot's former partner, the picture drawn by investigators and the media, who quickly presented a seemingly clear explanation: that the co-pilot was the culprit who deliberately crashed the plane, doesn't make sense.
She begins her own research and discovers evidence that points to a deliberate cover-up. The further she digs, the clearer it becomes:
The problem wasn't her ex-boyfriend, but a system that needs someone to blame - no matter what the cost.’
Read the full review here along with details of where to purchase:
https://bee572.substack.com/p/new-book-silent-skies
August 25th - Cabin air quality: what’s the problem – and the solution?
Simon Calder (The Independent) on his podcast talks with Global Cabin Air Quality Executive (GCAQE) Spokesperson - Tristan Loraine:
USA -
‘AUGUST 19, 2025 - Press Release
Congressman Frost Reintroduces Bipartisan “Safe Air on Airplanes Act” to Protect Passengers and Flight Crews’
“Airlines have a responsibility to protect everyone who steps on board. But for years, flight crews and passengers have been breathing toxic fumes and chemicals, creating a hidden health and safety hazard for everyone who flies,” said Congressman Maxwell Frost. “While airlines look the other way from the growing concerns from employees and passengers about fume events, we’re stepping in at the federal level. The Safe Air on Airplanes Act will ensure a future where pilots, cabin crew, and passengers can breathe easy while flying without fear for their health.”
‘ “In today’s aviation industry, the use of various chemicals is essential for the operation of aircraft. As our awareness of the potential dangers associated with chemical exposure grows, we must take all necessary measures to reduce both low and high-level exposures. I strongly support the implementation of advanced cabin air filtration systems and the phase-out of engine bleed air systems. Additionally, I trust in the importance of ethical healthcare programs for crew members, incorporating precision medicine to help prevent health issues and or recover from different types of aviation chemical exposures,” said Shannon De Witt, flight attendant and constituent of Congressman Frost.’
Read the full press release here:
Next is a recent LinkedIn post from David Byrnes, Barrister:
‘Aviation safety regulators have taken a jet-lagged approach to toxic fume events.
Cabin air quality sensors are not even a basic regulatory requirement. Fume events are not uncommon (per FAA).
It pose a different dimension to the fear of flying. Pilot impairment poses an obvious risk of disaster.
In July 2025, Irish Airline Pilots’ Association stated cabin fume events “remain a matter of increasing concern in commercial aviation” and it is “not a localised issue, but a global one”.
In 2022, the European Transport Workers’ Federation published measures deemed crucial to minimising the impact of toxic fume events when the air ventilation supply on commercial aircraft gets contaminated with noticeable amounts of heated engine oil and hydraulic fluid fumes: https://lnkd.in/eDyKU4ga
A University of Stirling report (2023) shows the health consequences of exposure to toxic cabin fumes: https://lnkd.in/envSrM3W
A JetBlue pilot’ workers compensation case succeeded in 2020 following a career ending toxic fume event: https://lnkd.in/es5P75mc
BA and Aer Lingus (subsidiaries of the British-Spanish multinational airline giant IAG) have had a number of reported fume events.
This fume event on a British Airways (last Saturday) diverted into Venice shows rescurers wearing hazmat suits and oxygen masks.
Aer Lingus Airbus (EI-DEJ) suffered a fume event on descent into Dublin Airport on 24.04.2024. The Air Accident Unit (Department of Transport) report (14.08.2025) determined contamination of the aircraft’s air conditioning system due to oil from an external oil leak at the Auxiliary Power Unit being ingested by the APU’s load compressor as the probable cause: https://lnkd.in/eJrQGdfA
A separate AAIU investigation into another Aer Lingus Airbus (EI-DEN) relating to fumes reported on a 26.05.2024 flight into Dublin is ongoing.
Captain Tom O’Riordan reported a fume event while flying EI-DEN into Dublin Airport on 05.06.2023 (which AAIU did not investigate).
I will be presenting this pilot’s whistleblower penalisation case at the WRC commencing 29.09.2025: https://lnkd.in/eyj3ra3n ‘
Finally, an important message and plea for funding for independent research from Ron Van Der Kuil, (researcher) - The Aero-Toxicity Research Project.
Please, please donate to this project if you possibly can.
As things currently stand, this is the only independent research project into Aerotoxic Syndrome and our only hope for the truth:
‘An Open Cry to the World: Wake Up Before It’s Too Late
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Citizens of This Shared Earth,
I write this not from a place of comfort, but from the depths of desperation and responsibility. For nearly three years, I have knocked on doors—governments, industries, airlines, unions, individuals—pleading for support, awareness, and action on a silent, invisible enemy:
Aero-Toxic Syndrome.
This isn’t just an abstract, academic issue. This is happening now, to pilots, cabin crew, and passengers. The very people entrusted with our lives in the skies are being slowly and silently poisoned by contaminated cabin air. And what’s worse? No one wants to talk about it.
Even those most at risk remain paralyzed—either by disbelief, career fears, or comfort in ignorance.
Aero-Toxic Syndrome is not confined to aviation alone—it is a canary in the coal mine for an entire global crisis. The same toxic exposures plague chemical workers, miners, metalworkers, farmers, auto repairers, healthcare professionals, electronics recyclers, and so many more. This is not just an aviation issue. This is an industrial epidemic, and we are all downstream.
Why, then, are we met with silence?
Why, when lives are being destroyed—when skilled professionals are being grounded with irreversible neurological damage, cognitive decline, infertility, cancers, and even early death—do we still turn our heads?
Since November 2022, I have worked without pause—collaborating with experts at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the UK and Amsterdam & Radboud UMC’s in the Netherlands—to bring legitimacy, science, and hope to this crisis. Yet, we remain chronically underfunded, and every step forward is a battle uphill against a storm of apathy.
- Where are the unions who say they protect workers?
- Where are the aviation authorities, the manufacturers, the corporations who claim to value safety?
- Where is the public, who deserve to know that their next flight might not just bring them to a destination—but expose them to irreversible health damage?
We need radical change, and it starts today.
This research could bring standardized diagnostic tools, treatment protocols, and industry-wide reforms—not just for aviation, but for every worker and every human exposed to industrial toxins worldwide.
If you’re reading this, I am asking you—not as a scientist, not as a campaigner—but as a fellow human being:
👉 Donate if you can
👉 Share this message
👉 Contact your MP, your union, your employer
👉 Demand transparency and change
Because if we don’t act now, more lives will be lost—not just in the skies, but in every factory, farm, lab, and home. We will have failed those who trusted us with their safety. And we will carry that failure into our children’s lungs, our planet’s future, and our legacy as a civilization that turned away from truth when it mattered most.
This is no longer about “awareness.” This is about survival.
Join us. Help us. Fund the truth.
With urgency and hope,
Ron van der Kuil
Researcher PhD,MMU – Aero-Toxic Syndrome Project - Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) – UK In collaboration with Amsterdam and Radboud UMC’s – The Netherlands
Email- Neuro-toxicity@fninstitute.com
https://neurotoxicityresearch.org/en/welcome/
To Donate:
https://neurotoxicityresearch.org/en/donate-2/
Or directly -
NeuroToxicityResearch Foundation
• ANBI (Dutch charitable status)
• IBAN: NL15TRIO0320573613
• Chamber of Commerce Number: 84667850
More information about Ron can be found here:
Thank you for your continued support with this petition.
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