The Countess of Mar – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Countess of Mar on 2015-12-02.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 8 July (HL831) and 2 November (HL3215), why those fume events that did occur did not trigger the airline’s formal reporting procedures to the Civil Aviation Authority under its mandatory reporting scheme, CAP382.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Under the Civil Aviation Authority’s mandatory reporting scheme (CAP382), a trigger for a report is an event that is considered by crew to be a “safety-related event which endangers or which, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person”.

None of the flights where fumes/smells were reported on post flight questionnaires met this criteria.