Here is an oddity. It’s effectively an amateur feature film produced to professional standards – more or less – and directed by a former BA airline pilot called Tristan Loraine. He retired on medical grounds in 2006, then retrained at the National Film and Television School, and is on a mission to campaign against the “aerotoxins” he says are poisoning cabin crew and passengers on all commercial flights, as unfiltered toxic fumes are recirculated into the aircraft. With help from industry colleagues and supported by Express newspapers, Loraine raised the production funds. The drama itself – about an investigative journalist working on this issue – is woodenly acted, clunkily written and agonisingly directed. It is trying to make a serious point, but if there really is a health issue with airlines (and there might well be), what we need is a proper documentary, probably for television, in which Mr Loraine’s contentions can be properly tested.
