On Mar 19, 5:58 am, "RAK" wrote:
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> > Rubba Luva wrote:
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> >>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1530572.ece
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> >>>From The Sunday Times
> >> March 18, 2007
> >> BA sat corpse in first class
> >> Steven Swinford
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> >> 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".
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> >> "It was a complete mess - they seemed to have no proper plans in place
> >> to deal with the situation," said Trinder, 54, a businessman from
> >> Brackley, Northamptonshire.
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> > No "proper plans in place"? How often does ANY airline have a passenger
> > die in transit? (It really doesn't seem the sort of event for which
> > advance planning would be given priority!)
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> I don't think it is so rare. There are so many thousands of long haul
> flights per day, some people stressed, cramped seating, poor circulation,
> etc.
> A friend used to do Hadj flights from Indonesia to Saudi and said deaths on
> the plane were quite common (many passenger being very old and probably
> often stressed). She said they usually tried to pretend the body was just
> asleep until they got back to Jakarta, as a death could mean too much
> paperwork and delays in Saudi.
> I assume that the crew would try to keep these events as quiet as possible,
> but this BA case seems to show the opposite, moving the unfortunate lady
> from economy through business up to 1st.. I wonder why they didn't use one
> of the crew sleeping cubicles (in the back on a 747 I think)
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> I have been on at least one plane with a dead guy - but he died just before
> landing (suicide!) so storing the body wasn't an issue.
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I wonder if there is a connection between hadj and the deaths during
flight so observed. Perhaps the deceased felt their last duty
furfilled they have no desire to stick around anymore? It will be
shocking to me to see anyone die on my flight.
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