No government agency tracks fume events or how often people become sick or impaired. Without sensors to measure air quality, planes rely on a low-tech method: the smell test.

No government agency tracks fume events or how often people become sick or impaired, and without sensors to measure air quality, planes rely on a low-tech method: the smell test.

A malfunctioning fume hood in the Engineering Quad resulted in an initial report of smoke made to the Department of Public Safety on Tuesday night at approximately 10:30 p.m. The DPS relayed the ...