Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dead body in first class
A senior citizen who died on a British Airways flight from Delhi to Heathrow was moved to first class. Apparently, BA doesn't have the "corpse cupboards" found on some Singapore Airlines to hold dead passengers if there is no empty row to stow the body. The flight attendants carried the woman to the front of the plane and propped her up with pillows. From the Times Online:
The woman’s daughter accompanied the corpse, and spent the rest of the journey wailing in grief...Link
Paul Trinder, who awoke to see the body at the end of his row, last week described the journey as “deeply disturbing”, and complained that the airline dismissed his concerns by telling him to “get over it”.
...Trinder was catching up on sleep when he was woken by a commotion and opened his eyes to see staff manoeuvring the body into a seat.
“I didn’t have a clue what was going on. The stewards just plonked the body down without saying a thing. I remember looking at this frail, sparrow-like woman and thinking she was very ill,” said Trinder.
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