BA passenger wakes up next to a corpse

[Deadly]

LONDON (Reuters) - A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, newspapers reported on Monday.

Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun said.

"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."

The woman's daughter was also upgraded and spent the rest of the nine-hour flight from Delhi to London grieving next to her dead mother, the Sun reported.

The Guardian said the incident happened last week.

British Airways has apologised for any distress suffered, according to the reports. The Mirror quoted BA as saying: "We apologise, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption."

Source - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19032007/80...ht-corpse.html

[blacksheep]

surely if there was room in 1st class they would have been better off upgrading a row of passengers and having the dead person on a row to themselves?

[SiE]

what a mad situation.

[CzarJunkie]

So thats how you get bumped............I'll try faking my own death the next time I fly BA, see if I get a seat upstairs.

[Over Carl]

The woman's daughter was also upgraded

Somehow I wouldn't consider moving the corpse an upgrade, it's not like she got to eat the poncey looking and crap tasting 1st class food. (I personally reckon on BA, business gets the best food by far).

[Clubber Lang]

I might try faking my death too, i'm going to India in 3 weeks.

[/dev/null]

So thats how you get bumped............I'll try faking my own death the next time I fly BA, see if I get a seat upstairs.

You'll probably die of DVT anyway before BA notice considering how much fuckin leg room I had last time!

[BBK]

Couldn't they have just shoved it in an overhead baggage container?

All this fuss over a lump of meat, I don't get it at all. When I die I've told the wife just to put me out with the bins.