Documentary film
English & German, with English subtitles

This film is the first independent investigative documentary of its kind about the history and the impact of what has become known as „Aerotoxic Syndrome“ over the past decades and which is termed by insiders as one of the aviation industry’s „dirty little secrets“.

Aviation journalist and award winning filmmaker Tim van Beveren from Berlin, Germany has closely followed for more than two year lasting investigation into the causes that led to the death of former British Airways pilot Richard M. Westgate, who died in December 2012 in a hotel near Amsterdam at the age of just 43 years. For 8 years Mr. van Beveren has researched and authored numerous news media articles and TV reports on the issue of toxic engine oil fumes that are frequently released into the breathing air aboard modern jet planes. Most passengers are not aware that the air they breathe aboard their flight comes straight and unfiltered out of the jet engines and this air contains low levels of toxic compounds, similar to nerve agents such as Sarin.

This award winning documentary puts this subject finally into the spotlight it deserves. Eyewitnesses and victims report first hand about the dramatic impact of toxic air they breathed on aircraft and how such events affected their health and changed their lives forever. While traveling and filming around the world Mr. van Beveren interviewed internationally renown scientists and experts who give astonishing testimony and detail the long-known damaging health effects which have been widely neglected so far.