Feeling ‘Hazy’

The QantasLink Boeing 717-200 was on approach to Hobart (Tasmania, Australia) Airport when the pilots smelled chlorine for about 10 seconds; soon afterward, the captain, and then the first officer, experienced hypoxia-like symptoms. They landed the airplane safely, but doctors said the captain had persistent symptoms consistent with impairment, and both had lingering headaches.

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