Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Time Pressure; Workload; Situational Awareness; Physiological - Other
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness / Injury
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Declared Emergency; General Physical Injury / Incapacitation
Aircraft; Procedure
Odor on aircraft when APU bleed selected on. Maintenance opinion was that odor was caused by rain water mixed with fluid on side of plane were being brought into APU intake and causing odor. After engine start odor was less but still there. At take off odor became very strong; eyes nose and throat burned. Went on O2 and returned to field for overweight landing. Paramedics met crew and took to hospital for tests. On going odor problem with aircraft pack system.
An A319 crew declared an emergency; donned O2 masks and returned to land after a strong odor caused burning eyes and throat.