[cherry]

wonder how those passengers who complained feel now, this "smelly " passenger actually dying...

the smell of rotting flesh is not pleasant...try being a nurse in a hospital....but I feel they treated this passenger dis respectively...

they allow smelly dogs and pigs on planes but smelly humans are a no go...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#3: "they allow smelly dogs and pigs on planes but smelly humans are a no go"

Heck, they even allow muslims on airplanes. Phewwww!
 

[AnotherUnixGeek]

wonder how those passengers who complained feel now, this "smelly " passenger actually dying...

Apparently the smell was causing other passengers to vomit and faint - this is a very sad case, but a passenger whose smell causes illness in others near him can't be allowed to remain in a plane.

[pepsi_junkie]

they allow smelly dogs and pigs on planes but smelly humans are a no go...

It wasn't run of the mill BO. People were vomiting. If your dog smells so bad that he makes people vomit I'd bet they wouldn't let him fly either.

[PGR88]

wonder how those passengers who complained feel now, this "smelly " passenger actually dying...

They probably feel even more justified in complaining. It wasn't mere B.O. - it was a highly dangerous disease! The fact its necrosis, not dirty underwear, isn't going to make the smell any better.

[rlmorel]

I can’t fault the passengers. If the smell was making people vomit, in a closed tube with pressurized air, that is saying a lot.

I suspect that the seats in a wide radius around that person probably were empty, and people were huddling in the back and front of the plane with wet facecloths over their mouths and noses.

I feel sympathy for the guy, but...he should have never been on that plane like that, IMO.

[mad_as_he$$]

I have never known a dog - even a wet one - to smell as bad a rotting flesh.