{"id":99617,"date":"2025-02-26T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=99617"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:00:59","slug":"couple-seated-next-to-corpse-on-14-hour-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/99617\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple seated next to corpse on 14-hour flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- An Australian couple have criticised an airline after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to them during a long-haul flight. Mitchell Ring said a passenger died part-way through the 14-hour flight from Melbourne to Doha last week. &#8220;They tried to wheel her up towards business class, but she was quite a large lady and they couldn&#8217;t get her through the aisle,&#8221; he told Australian network\u00a0<em>Nine News<\/em>\u00a0this week. &#8220;They looked a bit frustrated, then they just looked at me and saw seats were available beside me.&#8221; Ring said he was made to wait next to the corpse even after the plane landed. &#8220;The ambulance officers and the police came in, and the ambulance officers started pulling the blankets off the lady,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t nice.&#8221; Ring and wife Jennifer Colin were seated next to the corpse while travelling en-route to Venice. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a great flier at the best of times,&#8221; said Colin. &#8220;There has to be a protocol that looks after the customers on board.&#8221; Ring said he was seated with the body for around four hours despite other empty seats. &#8220;They said,&#8217;Can you move over please&#8217; and I just said, &#8216;Yes no problem&#8217;. Then they placed the lady in the chair I was in. There were a few spare seats around that I could see.&#8221; In a statement to Australian media, the airline apologised &#8220;for any inconvenience or distress this incident may have caused&#8221;. &#8220;First and foremost our thoughts are with the family of the passenger who sadly passed away on board our flight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- An Australian couple have criticised an airline after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to them during a long-haul flight. Mitchell Ring said a passenger died part-way through the 14-hour flight from Melbourne to Doha last week. &#8220;They tried to wheel her up towards business class, but she was quite a large lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Couple seated next to corpse on 14-hour flight - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/99617\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Couple seated next to corpse on 14-hour flight - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan(National Times)- An Australian couple have criticised an airline after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to them during a long-haul flight. 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