Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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Bless Singapore and their innovation in shoving humans bodies into cupboards, from domestic workers in apartments to corpses on airplanes
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In four hours and in a relatively cool room, with adequate ventilation, that's not really a problem. It's not like they picked a decomposing corpse before take off and stuffed it there.
Worst case scenario order a coffee and leave it on it.
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It's not the decomposition, it's the bladder and bowels slowly emptying themselves!
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Ah, well that makes sense I suppose. Thanks for laying that all out so clearly and setting me straight. For anyone who's curious, Delta and American Airlines are the ones who served free meals and beverages on the long flights I've been on
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"Hey, this is MY armrest." shoves corpse
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Maybe she was Elvis
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Flight crew are seated next to emergency exits during landing, they would occupy all crew seats except for any in a crew rest area (which is reached by ladder).
It's a dead body, it won't harass you. They might get rigor mortis but decomposition won't have time to start. Passengers comfort is last priority while balancing a metal tube going 900 km/h though the stratosphere. Some compensation can be arranged when back on the ground.
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just empty it in the plane bathroom
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Wait until they figure out self driving cars enough for grandmas to show up dead at places.
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I think that's a fairly reasonable solution. The problem is asking people though. Can't really blast on the loud speaker that someone died, hard to go seat by seat.
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Was this an ART42/72?
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Blankets aren't waterproof.
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Eh, still beats a living stranger.
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I think you've just literally never been around a dead body.
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That's true. The odds of me having the opportunity to sit next to one on a plane are extremely, low, though, so it's a moo point.
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Nice one. Counterpoint, it seems the person was fresh out of the restroom.
(I feel the need to say it, but I'm not actually that serious about sitting near a corpse for hours)
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Given Trump's policies, idk about that. It might become commonplace for us to see dead bodies. It was during his last admin, all those makeshift body storage areas, remember?
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It really should be policy to allow at least the seat(s) next to the deceased (I understand not moving the body for coroner/investigation reasons) use any surplus steward seats or those staff seats in the cockpit for employees.
Just basic decency.
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But in the highly specific situation of me having to sit next to one on a plane? Still unlikely.
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Oh I remember flying Frankfurt to Chicago with American Airlines! I mean we were 23 hours late because we had two emergency landings in Canada since our turbine caught fire twice and somehow had to stand in line for 6-7 hours for passport control in Canada to change the plane eventually - but they did have warm and nice food as well as beverages and even provided us with snacks and beverages while we were waiting inside the plane during the inspections! I mean we would have appreciated it if they had informed our relatives that we didn't die since there was apparently no information on our flight passed on whatsoever on either side of the atlantic and everyone thought we were dead (this was 2008, we were all teenagers and no one had any cell phone connection in Goose Bay), but the food was indeed nice. Pros and cons.
