Tim Worstall

Polonium 210 on BA Planes?

So there’s a report that a radioactive substance, possibly Polonium 210, has been foujnd on some British Airways planes on the London Moscow route. Did our mysterious poisoner scarper back there after dosing Alexander Litvinenko?

They’re asking passengers on the following flights to come forward:

BA875 Moscow-Heathrow on October 25

BA872 Heathrow-Moscow on October 28

BA873 Moscow-Heathrow on October 31

BA874 Heathrow-Moscow on November 3

By all means, do so, but I wouldn’t actually worry about any health effects. Unless someone started stuffing the polonium 210 into your tea, you’d have got more radiation from simply being on a plane at 30,000 feet than anything else.

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  1. JuliaM Avatar
    JuliaM

    It does seem a little ironic that the papers that only last week were printing ‘Facts about polonium’ in little box-outs in all their reports (main one being you had to ingest it) now seem to have forgotten them all, in the desire to print banner headlines about the ‘threat’ facing airline travellers.
    Or perhaps BA passengers are in the habit of licking their seat cushions?
    Didn’t think their in-house catering was that bad….

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  2. MarkS Avatar
    MarkS

    Oh yes… the catering is that bad!

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  3. Rosie Avatar
    Rosie

    I thank you for your comment.

    Reply

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