[pxeger1]

This guy says he doesn’t understand why the issue isn’t taken more seriously, and that he’s tried to cover every possible hole in his logic. Here’s a possible reason:

None of the sources he references about the danger of the smoke itself appear to be very confident that it genuinely could kill you in 39 seconds, and they all seem to be from sites that likely have an incentive to sensationalise. Maybe he had better sources for that claim, but didn’t show them (or maybe I didn’t watch the video carefully enough), but I wasn’t convinced that it’s actually true.

But if not, It’s possible the FAA/Boeing have better data or other reasoning that makes them sure that the smoke is not that dangerous. In which case their inaction (but not necessarily their PR strategy...) seems more justifiable.

[mrob]

Even if it doesn't kill them, thick smoke in the cockpit is obviously going to impair pilot performance, and that's a big problem when it's most likely to happen during the most dangerous phases of flight (takeoff and landing) when they already have a lot to deal with. It seems strange to ignore it when the risk could be mitigated with a simple change of procedures.

[beAbU]

Or... Alternatively... This YouTube video is incentivised to sensationalise as well. It is on YouTube after all, and there is an algorithm to please.

[lupusreal]

I haven't watched this channel recently, but from what I saw I the past he seems to have a bias of reassuring the public that air travel is safe and problems are uncommon and usually not as bad as they might seem to the uninitiated. E.g. airline mechanics on the wing applying "duct tape" is normal, not shoddy maintenance.

[gus_massa]

I agree. I was going to write a similar comment. The guy is slightly in the "FAA is always right" camp, so I got surprised that he disagree now. He must be really worried.