How would you like to spend about 9 hours flying, next to a corpse?
 

It would freak me out! Specially,if I woke up in the middle of the night next to it :disgust

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/eu...eut/index.html

Mmm they moved it to first class? Hope the guy gets a refund + free ticket.

its a sad situation,wonder if there was no place they could have landed, to take the body off ?

"Mirror and Sun tabloids said":thumbsup

Would make a great movie..Weekends at Bernie's 3:thumbsup

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Oh,my god,i can not image such situation...terrible

With all your traveling JFK, I was thinking by the thread title it was a "first-person" account ;)

OMG, that was the first thing that crossed my mind too, kevsh..creepy...=)

Holy shit that would freak me the fuckout

Good lord. Seems like that would warrant an emergency landing instead of continuing to fly for 9 hours.

Wow, that's harsh. I'm sure they could have found a better place fir the body.

That's a hell of a way to get upgraded to 1st class for free.

9 hour flight was prolly over water. If this was in the northeast US, turning around may not of been a big option with all the delays from the snow...

Unbelievable!

I would freek out... especially the daughter sitting there grieving her mother .. how sad.. wonder why they couldn't stop... :(

In the overhead compartment?
Under the seat in front of you?
The lavatory?

It's a sad, freaked out situation, but I think they did the right and only appropriate thing there.

How sad for the daughter. :(

This is really horrible that the daughter had to fly 9 hours with her dead mom until she gets to London. :(

I wouldn't mind sitting next to a corpse, rather that then a mother with a 6 month old baby that won't stop screaming or a stupid fuck that can't understand I'm not interested in their lifestory.

thats fucked lol

That's horrible - my condolences to the girl....:(

Indeed, too bad, I know its hard to second
guess the crew. I am not sure what a better alternative would have been, aside from an emergency landing.

That's what I'm talkin about.

WARNING - very much TMI.......

On a trip back from San Diego a couple of weeks ago, I had HORRIBLE gas. I spent the trip either running to the bathroom or sleeping - which probably meant I was pooting while I was sleeping. THEN during one of my bathroom runs, I knocked over a glass of red wine on the guy next to me. He was asleep at the time and I didn't even realize I'd knocked it over until I came back and he and the FA were trying to clean it up. THEN they ran out of red wine before the end of the flight when he was trying to order more, lol.

I think he would have MUCH rather been sitting next to a corpse ;)

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That guy next to you was me!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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I felt so bad. I came back and asked what happened "My glass of wine fell on me" "Oh, how did that happen?" "I don't know, I was asleep". Well, pretty obvious at that point it was me :(

I offered to pay to clean his clothes - I think he just wanted me far, far away from him at that point. :Oh crap

you'd think this problem would have come up before. I'm not sure how i would take being seated next to a corpse.. lol

R

naw man, I really wouldnt know how to react to the situation. When I first read it, what came to mind is , would I rather be stuck beside a corpse, or a screaming baby. I think the corpse won:winkwink:

I don't think I would be able to fly after that. It would serious mess with my mind. Probably have nightmares. But now that I think about it, with all the annoying people and children on flights, a corspe doesn't sound so bad. It's the sobbing daughter that would drive me crazy.

My gf is an FA for American. I remember the first time she had to give mouth to mouth (it was still mouth to mouth then, now I think they use a straw thing) to a guy having a heart attack and he died while she was doing it. She was TOTALLY freaked out for weeks. Not sure what they did with the dude after that. I'll ask her - I'm sure she wants to relive that day again, hehehe ;)