First class seats on BA a bit stiff

Personally, I think the crew did the best they could in a difficult situation.

I would bet that there were at least some children on board in Economy.
Moving the body to the relatively low population business class is the best solution in my opinion. Save for the distastefull and disrespectfull option of jamming the body in a cupboard or toilet.

As a person in charge, given the rather limited choice, I would rather put the body beside other adults than leave it where children are present.

Call me crazy

I think i read somewhere once that some of the newer Airbus long haul products have a horizontal refrigerated storage locker onboard for just such occasions….can anybody enlighten us further on that

Yup, its an optional extra that eats up cargo room.

A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight.

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 tabloids said.

“The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor,” Mr 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 newspaper said the incident happened last week.

British Airways had apologised for any distress, 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.”

Are you even aloud to do that ???

Given the sensationalist nature of much modern journalism, maybe the facts are not quite as they are made to appear…I note that the report does not actually say the body was placed next to Mr Trinder, merely that he awoke to find the corpse near(by).

There is no mention of whether or not the body was in any way covered in blankets.

In reality, what else could the flight crew do – place it in one of the few toilets, which might be viewed as disrespectful to the deceased, and which would also reduce the number of toilet facilites on board for the remaining passengers:( ?

Use of a crew rest bunk would probably only be possible on very long haul flights, would a Dehli-London flight have such facilities, and would this risk jeopardising flight crew rest periods needed on the flight?

Maybe the linked Singapore airline option will become more common on long haul airliners – but I guess any lack of revenue-earning seat-space means we all end up paying that little bit more for our flights, simply to give the airlines an “insurance” against what (hopefully:confused: ) is a rare event.

What would you do in such a situation – use of afree couple of unoccupied seats in First class seems the best option to me, so long as the body is not placed directly next to an un-related passenger. At least First class offers a little more privacy for the deceaased and a grieving relative than does cattle class.

Perhaps BA (and others) need to put something in the terms and conditions small print to cover such incidents.

I would hope the passenger involved does not see this as an opportunity to benefit from an unfortunate, and very difficult, situation – too many people look for any opportunity to make a fast buck, even if it stems from someone else’s misfortune, these days:mad: .

Paul F

A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight.

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 tabloids said.

“The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor,” Mr 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 newspaper said the incident happened last week.

British Airways had apologised for any distress, 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.”

truley disguisting, i hope they man sue’s BA.

Found it
http://www.aviation-health.org/news/browse.php?action=shownews&category=&id=23&topicid=333

I think i read somewhere once that some of the newer Airbus long haul products have a horizontal refrigerated storage locker onboard for just such occasions….can anybody enlighten us further on that

Seems like the best solution to me would have been to decend to 10,000′, depressurise, open one of the doors, and chuck the body out :diablo:

Andy

Could they not have locked the deceased in a lavatory? It doesn’t seem fair to sit a dead person next to anybody, regardless of their class of travel.

thats a bit disstastefull :p i was thinking more along the lines of strapping them into the crew rest, if one present

Could they not have locked the deceased in a lavatory? It doesn’t seem fair to sit a dead person next to anybody, regardless of their class of travel.