Australian Couple's Trauma After Body Placed Next to Them on Qatar Flight

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Yeah, um, about that corpse you decided to dump in my row...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03l18jv97o

An Australian couple have spoken of the "traumatic" moment the body of a dead passenger was placed next to them on a Qatar Airways flight.

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, who were travelling to Venice for a dream holiday, told Australia's Channel 9 a woman had died in the aisle beside them during the flight from Melbourne to Doha.

The couple say cabin crew placed her corpse, covered in blankets, next to Mr Ring for the remaining four hours of the flight without offering to move him, despite there being empty seats.

Qatar Airways said it apologised for "any inconvenience or distress this incident may have caused", adding that it was in the process of contacting passengers.
The couple said they had not been contacted or offered support by Qatar Airways or Qantas, the airline through which they booked the flight.

They said there should be a protocol to ensure passengers onboard were looked after in such situations. <snip>
 
Wow! That trumps any of Gon's threads!
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i think we have a couple of commercial pilots here. Wonder what the procedure for something like this is
 
About 30 years ago, there was a fatality on a flight I was on. Either Delta or American I think. The woman was quite old, and flying with family. They were seated up front. I was in the back and was unaware of the problem until the end of the flight. They did let us deplane and we did see the deceased woman with family around her.
 
IF someone dies while in flight, you do the best you can, and you move people if you can. Usually, you move the living, not the deceased, but that's a matter of practicality, not policy.

There was no apparent attempt to move this couple away from the deceased person, and that's the crux of the issue in this case.

The Middle East Three (Emirates, Qatar, and Etihad) are very different than our flag carriers.

For example - we will add extra fuel to be able to change altitudes if the ride is bad.

They fly only at the most efficient altitude and if the ride is rough - that's not something they're going to change.

People assume airlines are fungible - that they all work the same, share the same values, approach problems the same way.

But they really don't.
 
An older woman that was sitting next to me died mid flight.
I was on a KLM flight from LA to Amsterdam in a premium economy seat and I dozed off just as we started crossing the Atlantic heading toward Greenland. When I woke up she was falling out of her seat and unconscious.

I called for an attendant. A person from the business class section came over and asked if I would trade seats with him so he could " help her" to which I instantly replied absolutely. I would guess this person was an air marshall.
When the plane pulled up to the gate the FA's held us from deplaning, and allowed medics to come onboard and remove her and when she rolled by she was covered up.
 
obviously less than ideal, but i think the use of the term "trauma" is a little over the top.

The article says the lady moved, but the man did not. Did he ask to move? Why didn't he just move to one of the empty seats?

No desire to get into RSP, but i wonder if perhaps there a cultural difference in how death is viewed.
 
I'm confused, it says there were other seats available but instead of moving to one of them, they decided to stay next to the dead person and make a news story out of their melodrama?

Sitting next to dead person really wouldnt freak me out to begin with, but compared to the obnoxious older guy I was sitting next to last week from Miami to Cincinnati, I would have been ok with a dead person sitting on my lap compared to flying one more mile with this boisterous, hyper-opinionated screwball sitting next to me. Even the flight attendant very loudly told him to please stop talking, he was being disruptive to everyone around him. It shut him up for about five minutes, and it started all over again. Even as we deplaned, my wife, who was sitting in the next row over with my son, wiggled up to me and said "What are the chances the quietest, most nonconfrontational introvert in the world gets paired up with an obnoxious motormouth like that for two hours?" I just shook my head, she knew I was frazzled.

A dead person? Yea, no problem, sign me up. I'll pay extra.
 
B6_Dolphin said:
Yeah, um, about that corpse you decided to dump in my row...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03l18jv97o

An Australian couple have spoken of the "traumatic" moment the body of a dead passenger was placed next to them on a Qatar Airways flight.

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, who were travelling to Venice for a dream holiday, told Australia's Channel 9 a woman had died in the aisle beside them during the flight from Melbourne to Doha.

The couple say cabin crew placed her corpse, covered in blankets, next to Mr Ring for the remaining four hours of the flight without offering to move him, despite there being empty seats.

Qatar Airways said it apologised for "any inconvenience or distress this incident may have caused", adding that it was in the process of contacting passengers.
The couple said they had not been contacted or offered support by Qatar Airways or Qantas, the airline through which they booked the flight.

They said there should be a protocol to ensure passengers onboard were looked after in such situations. <snip>
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I want to know if they had first dibs on the passengers snacks?
 
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