[NormsRevenge]

10 a year .. This from not so long ago..


BA passengers share first class cabin with dead traveller
Daily Mail UK ^ | 23:01pm on 4th December 2006 | RAY MASSEY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748534/posts

Posted on 12/04/2006 7:53:24 PM PST by james500

[Judith Anne]

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

[tflabo]

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....

[dk/coro]

Reminds me of my old, but true, Fairbanks, Alaska story about the Coast Guard Recruiter flying with Jack Stallings from Fairbanks to Bethel in a small cabin aircraft in the dead of winter.

Dead man strapped in the cabin -- and the Recruiter told Jack that he offered him a cup of coffee in the pitch-black cabin -- only to presume the dead man was "sleeping".

Stallings casually thanked the Recruiter and told him "the rest of the story": He was flying the corpse home to Bethel to be buried (in the Spring); and that the corpse had been dead for 10 days or so. *S*

Just another early morning flight in Fairbanks in February.
Outside temp was probably 30-40 below. (Been there for a three-year pipeline-project in the mid '70's. Stallings was a close personal friend.)