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BA apologises after dumping dead body in first class: reports
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| 3/18/07
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Posted on 03/18/2007 8:45:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: RavenATB
This would have been a great script for Faulty Towers!
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posted on
03/18/2007 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Scarchin
They only put her in first class because they knew she wouldn't take the free drinks.
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posted on
03/18/2007 8:59:23 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: LibWhacker
At least on a cruise, they can place the deceased in a cool place until they reach port.
I'm surprised that this many folks pass away on flights on major airlines a year.
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posted on
03/18/2007 8:59:43 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: Grizzled Bear
Yeah but the others there doubled up.
To: NormsRevenge
Couldn't you just chuck 'em? I mean, at sea we used to cover them with a flag and play taps before turning the dear departed into fish food. Trust me, they didn't care.
To: Grizzled Bear
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:02:29 PM PDT
by
Ieatfrijoles
(Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
To: NormsRevenge
I will not make a Monty Python Dead Parrott sketch reference...
I will not make a Monty Python Dead Parrott sketch reference...
I will not make a Monty Python Dead Parrott sketch reference...
27
posted on
03/18/2007 9:04:59 PM PDT
by
kimmie7
(Liberals embrace the sin......Christians embrace the sinner.)
To: NormsRevenge
What did these bastrds ain first class want them to do, fold her in half and put her in an overhead bin?
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:05:01 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: MARTIAL MONK
LOL!!
Very clever post!!!We have a winner!
29
posted on
03/18/2007 9:05:58 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
To: Grizzled Bear
I have a close friend who is a left-seat-er for Delta. He was about to take off from, I think was Heathrow, and the head Stew called him out from the cabin before they pushed back. Some really old guy had apparently went "room temp" in one of the coach seats. But this man's wife was sitting next to him insisting that he was actually just a heavy sleeper. The fact that the guy's tongue was hanging out of his head and he was slumped against the window...and that his pants and seat were completely soaked from the bladder "relaxing," was a pretty good clue to the crew.
After trying to convince this woman for about 15 minutes they actually brought a compact mirror out of one of the stew's purse and held it under the guy's nose to show the woman that her husband was gone. Even then she wouldn't agree, so they called an ambulance. By the time the medic got to the airplane the flight was delayed by over an hour.
It seems that the woman knew that if they found out that her husband was dead that the airline would have...and did...pull the body off in London and the authorities would have to take possession. The final cost to the woman was something like $5,000 to get the body home via air, after all the added expense she incurred having to stay longer in London before she went home.
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:06:14 PM PDT
by
RavenATB
To: kimmie7
Was she pining for the fjords?
Feel free to make all the Monty Python references you wish. I cleared the way. ;-)
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:07:09 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: NormsRevenge
This is absolutely a dreadful story. Prayers of consolation for the deceased woman's family and friends.
That said, I absolutely cannot help laughing. It's the way I'll probably go--publicly, causing great inconvenience and embarrassment to my family. Like, you know, sitting in a lawn chair in the front yard in late summer for days...rotting away until the mailman or someone finally notices the flies buzzing around me. ;-D
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:07:37 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: Judith Anne
...in your hubby's boxer shorts...
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:08:50 PM PDT
by
RavenATB
To: NormsRevenge
Better to expire before all your frequent flyer points do.... I wonder if BA gives any frequent dier points?
Maybe she can use the points for a casket purchase.
Oh well...at least she shortened her distance to heaven by 30,000 feet or so.... SHe was literally dying to get off that plane...eheheheh...ok I'm done....
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:09:41 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Take authority that's ours)
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:10:24 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: tflabo
"...eheheheh...ok I'm done...."
Hell, if she was anything like my family she'd have died with a smile knowing that she got the free seat upgrade...
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:11:04 PM PDT
by
RavenATB
To: Doctor Raoul
What did these bastrds ain first class want them to do, fold her in half and put her in an overhead bin?I don't blame these people for being angry. They always have a section in the back of the plane where the flight attendents can lay down during flights. They should have put the body there.
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:11:16 PM PDT
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: Lucas McCain
A problem as frequent as this, and as potentially PR-negative as this, calls for design changes in the airplane itself.
I am not sure of this, but isn't there access to the luggage bay from within the plane? Atleast some sort of an intermediary, hermetic containment area? Surely this isn't a rocket-science problem!
The airline probably spends more on alleviating the negative image than solving this issue.
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:12:04 PM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: Lucas McCain
***What do you think they should do with a dead body? Lock it in the restroom? Toss it out an emergency door? What? ***
Ships have burial at sea so why not a special dump chute for burial at air.
DON'T LOOK UP!
To: kimmie7
I will not make a National Lampoon's Vacation Aunt Edna reference...
I will not make a National Lampoon's Vacation Aunt Edna reference...
I will not make a National Lampoon's Vacation Aunt Edna reference...
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posted on
03/18/2007 9:15:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Championship U)
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