Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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You do realize it's still on the ground when you find out who you're sitting near. Until they've closed the doors, you're completely free to nope the fuck out of there and hope for a later flight.
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It would make the most sense to move the body to a flight attendant seat and have an attendant sit with the passengers. Unless the flight is close to its destination, then it's probably best to just leave it as moving a corpse is a real pain.
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After looking into it more; there is access inside, but it's typically secured with a pressure differential and several locks.
They'd only really access it if absolutely required; for example to fight a fire in the cargo hold.
Bathroom would have been a good solution. Or just move her to a back seat and move the living passengers away. Bizarre they forced a couple to sit beside her.
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So do babies. At least the dead person just stinks and isn't also screaming.
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MAYBE put them in a flight attendant seat but those tend to be near the galley which has its own health issues. And if it is a flight with sleeping quarters for the crew (likely for a 14 hour flight) that is both a safety concern (crew can’t rest) AND all the same “body bouncing around” problems as the others.
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It would make the most sense to move the body to a flight attendant seat and have an attendant sit with the passengers. Unless the flight is close to its destination, then it's probably best to just leave it as moving a corpse is a real pain.
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If the flight wasn't full and they didn't allow them to move seats that's extremely messed up.
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This plus unruly passengers is why I think a spare seat away from the other passengers should be mandatory on all passenger planes. Then we wouldn't get dead bodies with nowhere to put them or dangerous passengers duct taped to their seat.
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Go ahead, put me next to the body. But don't for a second think you can stop me from acting out that scene in Commando for the rest of the flight.
"Please dont disturb my friend, he's dead tired"
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Go ahead, put me next to the body. But don't for a second think you can stop me from acting out that scene in Commando for the rest of the flight.
"Please dont disturb my friend, he's dead tired"
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Baby shit =/= Adult shit
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I don’t think that would be allowed as per safety regulations.
Flight attendants are safety personnel who also serve food and drinks.
The jump seats facing the passengers are there for a reason.
Having said that if airlines would be allowed to fly without flight attendants they would.
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It would make the most sense to move the body to a flight attendant seat and have an attendant sit with the passengers.
I think that the flight attendants have those dedicated seats at the ends of the cabin and facing it for a reason, so that they can see what's going on in the cabin. Like, probably safety reasons for that.
Honestly, I'd just as soon not have a corpse next to me...but I'd also just as soon not have a living person next to me. I don't see it as the world's most traumatic experience. I mean, I don't know whether it's optimal or not, but it's an airplane, sticking it there isn't a wildly-unreasonable thing to do.
On the flip side, I also don't think that it's wildly-unreasonable for the airline to give them a voucher. I mean, it's not like "dead body on an aircraft" is a common occurrence and it probably doesn't cost very much to keep someone happy.
The whole thing just doesn't seem like enough of an issue to get that worked up about.
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If the movie Commando has taught me anything, it’s that a dead person covered to look like they are asleep, can make an 8 hour flight without notice.
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It sounds cold but isnt this kind of the point of a body bag? To contain a human corpse without contaminating the surroundings, as well as ease of transportation, while also not taking up a huge amount of space when unneeded?
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I guess?? In case of a medical emergency they would typically try to make an emergency landing (I hope??). So how did this person die, and how certain were they that they could not recessitate? Did it happen over sea or land? Honestly it raises a ton of questions.
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Its an international flight. I went to american public school so my geography is shit but Australia to Qatar has a lot of countries in between, all with their own visa and even safety requirements.
If it were an actual medical emergency where they (at the airline) felt an emergency landing (which would still be closer to hours away anyway) would make a difference AND they could safely land somewhere that was willing to isolate the passengers who aren't legally authorized to be in country (also potential quarantine concerns)? They would.
Otherwise? You go to the nearest safe place to land which is often the destination anyway.
That is why you'll see the occasional story about how a transatlantic flight got halfway across and then turned around because of a problem. And a friend who used to fly passenger flights from LAX to HND would always talk about the point of no return where any diversion is about as long as the flight itself anyway.
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Even if it was full they should have found an alternate method of securing the body. They’re already dead, they don’t need a seat.
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Plus they're easily cleaned and changed.
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I think the problem likely comes down to safety and respect for the dead.
Put the body in the back galley and suddenly the plane hits rough turbulence and that body is now a +100 pound projectile.
Putting the body in a bathroom seems better, but that turbulence hits and now the body is flying around in there during the rough turbulence, and then the next day the media is lambasting the air line for desecrating the body or whatever.
