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.
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You would have to remain alert with your pithing Spork.
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.
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.
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.
I worked with a guy that had that happen!
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.
I would’ve asked for her peanuts
Another article I read said that there were more empty seats available. Why did the not move the living people to those??
See my post 28 below.
It depends on what caused the person's death. EBOLA: I think I'd pass.
I’d use my dead friend to get extra refreshements.
“Some pop for my friend here.”
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.
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. . .
Did she have the steak or the fish?
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.
One more compelling argument against flying steerage.
can i have her peanuts please.
and bring her another drink.
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
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.
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.
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