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Alb tower controller states that ingested aircraft exhaust fumes into tower's fresh air system caused incapacitating work environment, causing evacuate/evacuation.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 424972 |
| Time | |
| Date | 199901 |
| Day | Tue |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201 To 1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | atc facility : alb |
| State Reference | NY |
| Altitude | agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Person 1 | |
| Affiliation | government : faa |
| Function | controller : local |
| Experience | controller military : 4 controller radar : 8 |
| ASRS Report | 424972 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | other anomaly other |
| Independent Detector | other controllera |
| Resolutory Action | other |
| Consequence | Other |
| Supplementary | |
| Air Traffic Incident | Intra Facility Coordination Failure other |
| Situations | |
| ATC Facility | other physical facility |
Narrative:
Exhaust fumes from aircraft parked at the base of the tower infiltrated the environment of the control tower, incapacitating the controllers, and prompting evacuate/evacuation of the tower.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: ALB TWR CTLR STATES THAT INGESTED ACFT EXHAUST FUMES INTO TWR'S FRESH AIR SYS CAUSED INCAPACITATING WORK ENVIRONMENT, CAUSING EVAC.
Narrative: EXHAUST FUMES FROM ACFT PARKED AT THE BASE OF THE TWR INFILTRATED THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE CTL TWR, INCAPACITATING THE CTLRS, AND PROMPTING EVAC OF THE TWR.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.