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Tearful couple forced to sit next to dead passenger on long haul flight to Italy
Express UK ^ | 2/25/25 | Lauran O'Toole

Posted on 02/25/2025 1:03:55 PM PST by DallasBiff

The couple's once in a lifetime holiday was overshadowed when a woman died mid flight and was placed in the seat next to them.

An emotional Australian couple have been left "traumatised" after they were forced to sit next to a dead woman for hours after she died suddenly mid-flight.

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were on a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha, en route to Venice in Italy, when a woman suddenly collapsed in the aisle after going to the toilet.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: australia; deadpassenger; deadperson; dippy0622; doha; italy; jennifercolin; lauranotoole; melbourne; mitchellring; qatar; qatarairways; travel; venice
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To: Larry Lucido

You would have to remain alert with your pithing Spork.


21 posted on 02/25/2025 1:18:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: DallasBiff

Definitely worth drinks on the house for the rest of the flight. But then I would spend the rest of the flight watching to see if she blinks.


22 posted on 02/25/2025 1:19:19 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: DallasBiff

That was inconsiderate of the airline.
At very least, most people would object to such a seating arrangement, for four continuous hours, because
after someone has died, the rest of their body quickly begins to follow that pattern of cell death.

The entire cadaver becomes a fully clothed, spongy petri dish, brimming with emerging molds and bacteria. A situation that is less than beneficial to any living person, still breathing in and out from their assigned seat.


23 posted on 02/25/2025 1:19:41 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

The couple can whine all they want but there’s no other place to put the dead passenger except back in their seat.

I say this with authority since my daughter is a flight attendant and that is really the only place to put the body. When I was teasing her about this very story she went off on how stupid the article was. She got mad at me for laughing about the story and her reaction.


24 posted on 02/25/2025 1:19:52 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: Brandonmark

I worked with a guy that had that happen!


25 posted on 02/25/2025 1:21:22 PM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: DallasBiff

What’s not to like? No armrest jostling, no inane attempts at conversation, no climbing over you, and you could probably even snag the corpse’s little bag of peanuts.


26 posted on 02/25/2025 1:22:01 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DallasBiff

I would’ve asked for her peanuts


27 posted on 02/25/2025 1:22:14 PM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet )
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To: DallasBiff

Another article I read said that there were more empty seats available. Why did the not move the living people to those??


28 posted on 02/25/2025 1:22:35 PM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

See my post 28 below.


29 posted on 02/25/2025 1:24:34 PM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: caver
I would have been glad to sit next to a dead person after some of the flights that I have been on.

It depends on what caused the person's death. EBOLA: I think I'd pass.

30 posted on 02/25/2025 1:24:41 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DallasBiff

I’d use my dead friend to get extra refreshements.

“Some pop for my friend here.”


31 posted on 02/25/2025 1:24:51 PM PST by Jonty30 (Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

At least she didn’t want to TALK to them all flight. Tell them her life story. Like the guy on the movie Airplane that made the guy next to him want to kill himself.


32 posted on 02/25/2025 1:26:23 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: wildcard_redneck
there’s no other place to put the dead passenger except back in their seat.

I'm not convinced of that. How about the hold? Would need a sealed, pressurized container of some sort--but a back-up fridge would qualify for that, and you know any airplane has some of those.

Might not want to use that particular unit for food after that. . .

33 posted on 02/25/2025 1:27:09 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: DallasBiff

Did she have the steak or the fish?


34 posted on 02/25/2025 1:29:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff
That dead person doesn't smell like a dead person, she smells like a successful lawsuit against the airline.

On a disappointing note, airlines’ contracts generally protect them from liability in such situations, but extreme cases of mishandling could still lead to legal action.

35 posted on 02/25/2025 1:32:14 PM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: DallasBiff

One more compelling argument against flying steerage.


36 posted on 02/25/2025 1:34:09 PM PST by libstripper
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To: DallasBiff

can i have her peanuts please.

and bring her another drink.


37 posted on 02/25/2025 1:34:53 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Not everything that happens is akin to winning the litigation lottery. I don’t see this as a big lawsuit. I see it as a goodwill gesture refunding the tickets and maybe some passes for future travel


38 posted on 02/25/2025 1:35:04 PM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DallasBiff

Nobody ever dies “in flight.” Death always occurs at the destination airport. Saves the coroner the guesswork of tying to figure where the a/c was when death occurred.


39 posted on 02/25/2025 1:35:30 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: MNDude

They could have been tears of compassion and goodbye. I might have had one or two. It was a fellow human being who presumably had people who loved and awaited her. She died alone, far from them, far from home.

Pray for her, then turn away.


40 posted on 02/25/2025 1:35:42 PM PST by libertarian66
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