Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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The airline installed a discreet locker next to one of the aircraft's exit doors to hold an average-sized human body. Special straps were also provided to secure the body and prevent it from being moved by turbulence or during landing.
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I feel like they low key hated that particular couple.
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Accurate. Are you a summarization bot?
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It happened over the sea.
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Yes, but it's operating on a biological substrate.
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I mean, only sometimes. Stuff kind of comes out of bodies at it's own pace.
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Flying from Melbourne to Doha is almost entirely over the ocean.
With 4 hours left in a 13h flight, they were probably near Sri Lanka but the Colombo airport is one of the busiest in South Asia, and as you say, it's a huge hassle to divert.
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Is there an option to turn even more of the other passengers into bodies?
Wait, no, don't put me on the list -
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Technically, there was at least 1 free seat since the woman wasn't using it anymore.
But that begs the question, assuming the entire plane was full then the lady was sitting next to at least one other person. They moved her from that seat to be in next to the couple in question. So it seems to me there is no situation where it's not extremely messed up.
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A trained neural network of sorts
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dead bodies sometimes shit or urinate themselves. and your just being hotboxed in a plane.
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Sometimes I am reminded of a book I read as a kid wherein one of the main characters dies and is eventually resurrected. She says that when you die, you don't lose awareness or move on, you just passively occupy the body without the ability to move (like locked-in syndrome, I guess, but I didn't know that as a kid and don't know whether it was even recognized back then). In particular she describes the horrors of her autopsy.
If that were true, I wonder whether the person within the cadaver would be embarrassed to have caused such inconvenience. I know I would.
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I think that's probably too morbid if they have a death seat designed into airplanes.
Besides, what if two passengers die on the plane?
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They flew all the way from Melbourne to go to Venice of all places, can't help but get the mental image of an obnoxious insta couple.
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Babies shit and piss themselves constantly.
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Personally, I'd take the dead person.
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Yeah the only thing I could think of was that maybe the couple didn't want to split up and there was only 1 other free seat.
But I think we'll just learn that the airline was being incompetent.
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That's a good point. Wonder why they didn't just do that?
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I imagine any solution they come up with will be out of sight until it's needed and you could equip multiple bathrooms or whatever space. Although two people dying like this is probably astronomically rare.
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Does anyone know if there's actual protocol in these situations?
I actually know someone who died on a plane last year and, while they did at least make an emergency landing at a nearby airport, I've never thought about where they kept the body during that time. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask his surviving family that was with him, probably not.
