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Investigators described the gas as ‘insidious’ for its role in a flight which left five Britons dead including businessman Richard Cousins.

Report into fatal Hawkesbury River crash released Save Normal text size Advertisement A report into a fatal light plane crash that killed five tourists and the pilot three years ago has recommended mandating the use of active warning carbon monoxide detectors in passenger-carrying aircraft. On December 31, 2017, pilot Gareth Morgan and five passengers – British tycoon Richard Cousins, 58, his sons William, 25, and Edward, 23, his fiancee Emma Bowden, 48, her daughter Heather, 11 – boarded a Sydney Seaplanes aircraft for a flight from Cottage Point on Sydney’s northern beaches t...

Investigators described the gas as ‘insidious’ for its role in a flight which left five Britons dead including businessman Richard Cousins.

Key points Pilot’s ability to control the aircraft likely significantly degraded due to carbon monoxide exposure; Cracks in aircraft exhaust and holes in firewall very likely allowed carbon monoxide to enter the aircraft cabin; ATSB recommends mandated fitment of recording devices in smaller passenger aircraft, active CO detectors in piston aircraft. Carbon monoxide exposure likely significantly degraded the ability of the pilot of a Beaver floatplane to safely operate the aircraft before it collided with water in Jerusalem Bay on the Hawkesbury north of Sydney in December 2017, fatally inj...

The abililty of the pilot of a plane which plunged into a bay near Sydney killing five Britons was “likely significantly degraded” by carbon monoxide exposure, investigators have found. British businessman Richard Cousins, the chief executive of a FTSE 100 catering giant, died alongside his two sons, fiancee Emma Bowden and her 11-year-old daughter when a sightseeing trip on New Year’s Eve, 2017, ended in tragedy. The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, piloted by Canadian Gareth Morgan, who also died, plunged into water in Jerusalem Bay, 25 miles north of Sydney city centre. The Australi...