"She's dead, Jim"
Posted on 03/18/2007 8:45:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways has apologised after placing the body of a woman who died three hours into a London-New Delhi flight in a vacant first-class seat, media reports said Monday.
After the elderly woman died, the flight's cabin crew moved her from her economy class seat into a vacant first class seat, strapped her in with a seatbelt and propped her up with pillows.
Her daughter was given a vacant seat next to her, and reportedly spent most of the remaining five-odd hours of the flight wailing and in tears.
A passenger seated nearest to the corpse, identified by the Daily Mirror only as Paul, told the paper of how the crew had not informed him that the woman had died mid-flight.
"I went to the galley and said, 'She doesn't look too well'," the 54-year-old businessman told the Mirror.
"The crew told me, 'We put out a call to the doctor but it was too late. She's expired.'"
He added that "because of turbulence it (the body) kept slipping down on to the floor. It was horrific."
A spokesman for BA was quoted by the Mirror as saying: "We apologise, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption."
According to The Guardian, about 10 people a year die on BA flights, and the airline acted in a similar fashion when an American traveller died half-way through a six-hour London-Boston flight in November.
The man was covered with a blanket and strapped into a reclining first-class seat.
Tard ping list
"I'm not dead yet!"
"You'll be stone-dead in a minute..."
"I'm getting better!"
"Oh, don't be such a cry-baby..."
"She's dead, Jim"
LOL! You are a sick puppy! LOL!
"Fly British Airlines, where even newly-Democrat voters are treated first-class!"
An American and his mother-in-law are visiting the Holy Land when she dies. The man contacts the local undertaker who tells him that he can bury her in the Holy Land for $50 or have her flown back to the States for around $5000.
Guy says "lemme think about that for a while."
Guy comes back the next day and says "I think I'll have her flown back to the States."
Undertaker sez "Really? Do you know how many people pay a fortune to have their bodies flown here to be buried in the Holy Land? And you want to do the reverse? Why?"
Guy sez "Well... I heard tell of a man who died and was buried in the Holy Land and three days later he came back to life. I don't wanna take that chance..."
However I will... "So, does BA stand for Bernie's Airways?"
Stiffs On A Plane, The Movie.
couldnt they just put her in the elevator and send her down below? Didnt they see that movie executive decision, with steven seagal and Kurt Russell?
Thats where the commandos were hiding..
I'd pay extra to sit next to someone who wasn't 400 pounds
and/or has a screaming baby, even if they were dead.
HF
Ladies and Gentlemen, as we prepare to land please bring make sure seatbelts are fastened, all luggage stowed away properly, seats and tray tables in an upright and locked position and your dead strapped in so they don't flop on the floor.
I have heard that, at least on smaller cruises, the "cool place" is the same room where they keep all the food.
ROFL
Either that or under the seat.
If she was very,very,very,very small...........
You are so bad.
I'll bet I know several people who could've talked to the corpse all the way to England and never realized that she didn't talk back.
I have sat next to people on flights, whom I WISHED would shut up! LOL
I wonder... if I pretend to be dead would they move me to first class?
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