Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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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.
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Can I get more seat room instead of leg room. Wanna lie down for a bit
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I think he might just be some guy. Possibly the 3rd in a long line of guys.
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Cover the body, and relocate surrounding passengers, if possible, if you can't move the body (moving a dead body respectfully is very hard).
Apparently there were free seats elsewhere, the pax should have been offered relocation. However it's not clear if the passengers asked. The cabin crew could have been rattled too and forgot.
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The smallest also stood on the tray, grabbing at my seat and head, diving in between the seat screaming PEEKABOO at full volume directly in my ear.
I would've grabbed the kids arm and traumatised him for life
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That depends on the aircaft. It's very accessible on the ART42/72.
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Cause flight crew are seated next to emergency exits for a reason. Safety > inconvenience
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Most of the planes I've been on had at least some crew seats tucked into the back and out of the way of the primary exits if I am remembering correctly. There probably is a good reason, such as tripping hazards for the crew doing their work or the seats not really being effective for long term seating and keeping the body in place (I'm thinking of the fold down crew seats).
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Yeah fuck Qatar Air
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On a related note, why don't more people just drop dead while driving a car? Like I can't think of a single story that I'm aware of that went "yeah he had a heart attack and then ran the car off the road"
I feel like it should be a daily occurrence
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Probably because after they do, they crash and it will generally be assumed the crash is what killed them.
