Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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I don't understand this.
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Maybe it's different when you're starting in the States, but every international flight I've been on has served at least two meals and complimentary drinks.
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There's bodily fluids that leak out afterwards. I don't think you'd want that to splash on you during turbulence.
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Instincts, man. People here lack them. Don't hang out next to a dead body of someone who just randomly collapsed, especially on something like a plane which can experience bad turbulence.
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Well, she did die in the bathroom, so maybe her bowels are emptied?
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She could bleed out of her mouth, nose, or other orifices depending on how she died, and people have a lot of blood in them. Also pee, vomit
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Cover her with blankets.
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If there's even the slightest chance that something could be shittier in the United States come on the answer is yes.
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No, I'm saying all of my international flights that take off from the States have had complimentary meals and drinks
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On the other hand, if body odor bothers you...
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This has little to do with a flight being international or not, or where it starts. It depends on the airline and its policies. For example: Aeroflot serves "real" food starting from 3 hour flights. Munich to St Petersburg is 2 hours 55 minutes, so you get a horrible sandwich that haunts me to this day. But at least you get non alcoholic beverages for free. If you fly this route with Lufthansa, you get a warm meal with a free beer.
The flight I was referring to (Rome - New York and back) was a Lufthansa flight, but operated by Eurowings. They are a cheap airline, and it depended on your ticket whether or not food and one beverage was included or not. Most people did not have food included in their ticket, they still could buy some on board for like 18€. Only a small bottle of water was provided, although the flight was 6 hours.
Munich to Brussels is 55 minutes. Lufthansa gives you crackers and a non alcoholic beverage for free, and they struggle for their lives to get that to you in such a short period of time.
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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
