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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jun 25, 2012 19:02:35 GMT
www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/news/refund-for-swedish-woman-forced-to-sit-near-corpse-during-international-flight/story-e6frg8ro-1226406856035 QUOTE: Refund for Swedish woman forced to sit near corpse during international flightJune 24, 2012 A SWEDISH traveller has received a partial refund after she was forced to sit near a dead man during an international flight. Lena Pettersson had just boarded her Tanzania-bound flight at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol when she noticed a man in his 30s looking unwell, the Expressen daily reported. Ms Pettersson, a journalist with Sveriges Radio, told the broadcaster that the man "was sweating and had cramps [seizures]." After the Kenya Airways plane took off, the man died, the Expressen reported. Cabin crew laid out the dead man across three seats and covered him with a blanket - but left his legs and feet sticking out, Ms Pettersson said. For the remainder of the overnight flight, Ms Pettersson was forced to sit near the dead man, with just an aisle separating her and the corpse. ..."Of course it was unpleasant, but I am not a person who makes a fuss," Ms Pettersson said. After her holiday in Tanzania, Ms Pettersson lodged a complaint with Kenya Airways, eventually receiving a 5000-kronor ($700) refund, half the price of her plane ticket. Woman boards flight, sits next to unwell passenger Man dies during flight, woman forced to sit near body Traveller receives partial refund after lodging complaint
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Post by trubble on Jun 25, 2012 19:09:44 GMT
That's horrible!
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Post by sadie1263 on Jun 25, 2012 19:29:26 GMT
Wow....I never thought about what choices they have in a situation like that.....is there any place they can take them? Can't get to baggage area......probably isn't a large enough place.......couldn't shove him in the bathroom or anything...........what if the flight was full....where else could they put the woman........I don't know......I would be a little freaked out to.....but I'm just not sure the airplane people had a lot of options.
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Post by sadie1263 on Jun 25, 2012 23:15:41 GMT
Ok.....I've thought about this......did the deceased guy get a refund or did they charge him for the two extra seats?
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Post by Synonym on Jun 25, 2012 23:18:03 GMT
I wonder if the plane was too small to have a room in a hold; or maybe they thought it would be disrespectful to the deceased to place them with the luggage.
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Post by toby on Jul 5, 2012 17:22:17 GMT
Toby's comment.;- You have nothing to fear from a corpse, it's the living you have to watch out for !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 19:13:59 GMT
Toby's comment.;- You have nothing to fear from a corpse, it's the living you have to watch out for ! ;D Can the cabin crew get to the hold when the flight is in mid-air? I always assumed it could be accessed only from the outside, or at most via a narrow ladder. The relatives of the deceased might not be too pleased if the corpse of the dear departed had to be squashed up in order to remove it from sight of the passengers.
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Post by sadie1263 on Jul 5, 2012 20:10:14 GMT
That's what I think........it's not like they could fold him up and put him in an overhead storage bin.....what did the people on board think should and could be done?
Not a pleasant deal....but the woman needs to consider that it was not her......and that the deceased had a family and would be grateful that their loved one was treated respectfully....and move on.
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