Pilot crashed his glider into a parked bus after he was knocked out by carbon monoxide poisoning

A motor glider crashed into a parked bus after a pilot fell unconscious in the cockpit due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning – but survived. The 72-year-old pilot likely passed out after the deadly engine fumes leaked into his cockpit from a faulty exhaust, investigators said. His Scheibe Super Falke SF25E glider went out of control … Read more

Briton found dead in remote Austrian mountain hut from carbon monoxide poisoning

British man’s frozen body is found in Austrian mountain hut: Ski instructor ‘was poisoned after lighting a fire without realising chimney was sealed’ British man, 36, had been living in the municipality of Buers as a ski instructor  He died from carbon monoxide poisoning after forcing his way into mountain hut His body was discovered … Read more

Briton found dead in remote Austrian mountain hut from carbon monoxide poisoning

Briton found dead in remote Austrian mountain hut from carbon monoxide poisoning British man, 36, had been living in the municipality of Buers as a ski instructor  He died from carbon monoxide poisoning after forcing his way into mountain hut His body was discovered frozen solid inside the hut, two months after his death   By … Read more

Social housing tenants will have the legal right to carbon monoxide and smoke alarms after Grenfell

Tenants in social housing will now have the legal right to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms for the first time following the Grenfell Tower fire.  Government ministers are set to announce the plans in order to put a stop to a law which sees tenants living in council housing given less protection than those living … Read more

Beko gas cooker killed at least five people from carbon monoxide poisoning

The manufacturers of a cooker that killed up to 18 people failed to test it with the grill door closed because they ‘did not foresee anyone using it like that’, an inquest heard today. Maureen Cook, 47, and her parents Audrey, 86, and Alfred Cook, 90, died in their static caravan home in Camborne, Cornwall, in 2013.  … Read more

Interstellar comet Borisov is surrounded by a poisonous cloud of carbon monoxide

Borisov, a comet from another star system, was surrounded by a cloud of poisonous ice that had to have formed in a region of space colder than anything known to man. Researchers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center found that it must have formed in the outer edges of its original star system – known … Read more

Interstellar comet Borisov is surrounded by a poisonous cloud of carbon monoxide

Borisov, a comet from another star system, was surrounded by a cloud of poisonous ice that had to have formed in a region of space colder than anything known to man. Researchers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center found that it must have formed in the outer edges of its original star system – known … Read more