Couple compelled to sit beside deceased passenger on flight
An Australian couple were left in shock after being forced to sit next to a dead passenger onboard their flight recently.
Death on a plane
On a recent flight from Melbourne to Venice, an Australian couple were forced to sit beside a dead passenger for hours after the woman has passed away.
As reported by Daily Mail, the couple, Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, were onboard a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Venice when the woman suddenly collapsed in the aisle of the plane after visiting the toilet.
Despite the life-saving efforts of cabin crew, the woman could not be revived.
“Unfortunately, the lady couldn’t be saved, which was pretty heartbreaking to watch,” Mitchell Ring said, according to Daily Mail.
“They went to try and move her, they brought this chair down… and they put her in the chair and tried to wheel her up towards business class. But she was quite a large lady, and they couldn’t get her through the aisle.” Ring stated.
Four hours next to a dead woman
It was then that crew members noticed there were actually vacant seats on both sides of the couple and asked them to move over to make room for the dead passenger.
The dead passenger was then put in the seat beside Ring, and covered in blankets for the rest of the four hour-long journey to Doha, Qatar.
In addition to these four hours, the couple were also forced to wait even longer, after the plane had touched down in Doha, as police and medical officers boarded to inspect the dead passenger.
Ring said that crew members began taking the blankets off the body and inspecting it while he and his wife were still sitting right there on the plane.
“I can’t believe they told us to stay… it wasn’t nice,” Ring said.