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'I felt quite uneasy. But some passengers were being very British about it and simply not acknowledging there was anything wrong. ... She added:'The chap's wife came in an sat with him on the little buddy stool at the bottom of the bay in front of the seat. She was very distressed. We could hear her sobbing.
'It's not very enjoyable when this happens. But the staff were very good.' -
I'm sure the family DEEPLY regrets the interruption of Mission Impossible III but let's all thank God that the passengers were able to be "British" about it and ignore the sobbing of a distressed widow.
Did the passenger relieve himself of all bodily functions? I saw a guy die and he wet himself...not that he cared.
I had posted this a little earlier on another thread about the Navy and Guam..... kinda weird that I read this story now!
"They med evacuated someone from the civilian hospital out on a commercial flight we were on to Hawaii... patient had had a stroke or heart attack or something...not the best medical facilities on the island, as I recall. Flight got pretty interesting when the person coded with about 2 hours left to go on the flight. There was a flight nurse on board with him, but the captain got on the p.a. and asked for anyone certified in CPR to volunteer, so they lined up in the aisle and just kept taking turns until we got to Honolulu. There were quite a few military on the flight, and I think that is who most of the volunteers were.... don't know how the guy turned out, but it didn't look good!"
That's another reason why the cat takes transatlantic ships when travelling overseas. When a suckah kicks the bucket on a ship, they just throw the carcass aboard. No one will know better!
If only they had upgraded him earlier, all this could have been avoided. Sheesh, service ain't what it used to be.
Did they want the body moved to coach, or did they want it jettisoned out of the cabin?
The Democrats are actually IMPORTING votes now.
Obviously, looking at some of the posts here , I wonder if this FR, or DU, or WBC? No respect for the dead and dying. maybe I've just had a little bit too much death close at hand, but I don't find all the cutsie comments about a dying, or dead person funny. Watching loved ones die isn't fun, it's harder when you do everything you can to save them, and they still go.
The airline said there were about a dozen deaths aboard its planes each year - out of a total of 36million passengers.
This poor woman watched her husband have a heart attack and die and she never left his side. All of those that tried to help this man should be commended.
I could not imagine the anguish and depth of the saddness that she has been through because of these circumstances.
Not really relevant, but many years ago my wife's great aunt died at a ripe old age in Switzerland, and my wife's uncle had to go over and make arrangements to bring back the body.
He had a coffin made, which was taken to the airport and went onto a conveyor and disappeared in the usual way, but when my wife's uncle got off the plane in New York, He was unable to find the coffin anywhere.
Finally it turned out that it had been put on the wrong plane and flown to Boston, where it was unloaded. I think he had to go to Boston, retrieve it again, and get it through customs, so it could be flown down to New York for the funeral. What a nightmare. He was a very proper bachelor uncle.
what a pleasant way to start a vacation
My Father and Grandfather were traveling in an auto in 1940 with a gentleman in the back seat during a 7 hour trip. The man in the back seat was talking to them.
After about 5 hours he didn't answer. They looked back and thought that he had falled asleep. WRONG!
They drove him home! Then the circus began!!
How sad that he died . How sad that these people couldn't get past themselves.
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He was already an undertaker, and while on vacation in Spain an Englishman dropped dead in his hotel. He took a professional interest in all of the arrangements that had to be made to get the dead man from Spain to Great Britan. He also found out that, due to coincidence, physical activity they were not used to, and trying to drive rented cars over mountain roads after too much Rioja, a modest number of the millions of Brits who visited Spain every year, died.
When he got back home, he read up on the rules and regulations, and began acting as an agent to repatriate dead Brits. Rather than handle the burial, he just did the paper work and handled the arrangements to get the deceased from the morgue in Spain, to the local undertaker hired by the family in Britian.
Within a few years he had sold his funeral home, and made a good living just doing the paper work to get the bodies back home.
Yes, BA meals aren't all that good.
Regards, Ivan
Audrey Griswold: She breathed on me! A dead person breathed on me!
It does happen from time to time.
When you are over water, nothing you can really do.
But, Continental Micronesia had it tough, on a Guam to Honolulu flight a guy died, and they had no alternate landing sites due to the size of the plane.
In fact, the new A340-600 actually has a place to store a body, should someone die on board, as their flights can extend 17 hours non stop.
Even the Brits are just dying to come to America.
I know, I am so going to he11 for that.
