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From: ctbishop@earthlink.net
In article <4ltfgb995pdajgdf8nt9uheqe2rv8aoa46@4ax.com>,
"Peter Duncanson [BrE]" wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:20:31 +0100, Jack Campin
> wrote:
>
> >>> 1960s - every time I flew into Hawaii from S.E.A. (mainly Viet Nam), at
> >>> about 15 minutes before landing, one stewardess would race the length of
> >>> the 707-320 with a spray can of some insecticide blasting away, held low
> >>> to avoid gagging the passengers. There was a detectable aroma, but it was
> >>> not intolerable. I understood this was done at the orders of the state
> >>> of Hawaii, rather than the feds.
> >> This used to be done for _all_ incoming flights to Australia. (Including
> >> from Hawaii, which used to be the standard stop for flights between
> >> Australia and the USA.) The smell was pretty strong, and I'm a little
> >> surprised that asthmatics survived it.
> >> I imagine that there's still form of disinfectation going on, but it's
> >> probably something more subtle delivered through the air conditioning.
> >
> >No, they come round with spray cans. I met with it on a flight
> >two years ago (I forget which countries were involved - maybe
> >Malaysia to UK).
> >
> >I am violently sensitive to whatever that insecticide is and nearly
> >passed out from it once, landing in the UK from Turkey. On that last
> >occasion I yelled at them to stop so I had time to go hide in a toilet.
> >
> I remember when travelling by plane (both directions) between the UK and
> West Africa (Gold Coast) in the mid-1950s insecticide was sprayed in the
> cabin at some airports. My vague recollection is that someone told me it
> was DDT.
Have any of your eggs had extremely thin shells?
--
charles
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