A woman died midway through a flight. A couple had to sit next to the body
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'I don't really know how I feel and would like to speak to somebody to make sure I'm all right,' Mitchell Ring said after the incident.
An Australian couple says they are “traumatized” after being forced to sit next to the body of a passenger who died midway through their Qatar Airways flight.
Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were travelling from Melbourne, Australia to Venice, Italy, when a woman collapsed in the aisle and could not be revived.
Ring said airline staff brought in a wheelchair and attempted to move the deceased passenger to business class.
“She was quite a large lady, and they couldn’t get her through the aisle,” he added.
Ring said that the “staff were there in no time” and that they did “a wonderful job trying to revive her.”
“They looked a bit frustrated and then they just looked at me and saw seats were available beside me — my wife was on the other side, we’re in a row of four by ourselves — and they just said to me, ‘Can you move over, please?’ and I just said, ‘Yes, no problem,’ and then they placed the lady in the chair that I was in,” he said.
According to the couple, flight staff told them they must remain in their seats next to the body for the remaining four hours of the flight. They added that the crew took the blankets off the body to inspect it while the couple sat nearby.
“There were a few spare seats I could see around us. I can’t believe they told us to stay … it wasn’t nice,” Ring said, speaking from the couple’s vacation in Venice.
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