Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
I have made my point on this in the past but even if a fully qualified pilot had been in the left hand seat the carbon monoxide leak would have produced the same result. The one thing to learn from this accident is that cheap carbon monoxide alarms are available and should be mandatory in all light aircraft.
The AAIB have a recommendation about this from July 1972, 50 years ago:
13-1972_G-AYPN.pdf (last page).