Air Travel: What's Hot Now: Death On Board

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Death On Board Aug 16th 2012, 11:05 It happens infrequently, but it does happen several times a year - someone dies on board a flight or in the airport. I have heard anecdotally from a flight attendant friend about her experience with a passenger who died during a flight, and have had it happen at the airport while working. At the airport My own experience was a night, about 12 years ago while on shift at the airport. It was before 9/11, and doubtful what occurred would happen now. In any case, I was working the international gates and about 100 feet ahead of me I saw two passengers pushing a wheelchair with an elderly passenger who appeared to be slumped over. I thought it odd, but the passengers made it past airport security screening so I let it go. Less than an hour later at a neighboring gate, I heard cries and wailing. Not good. So I went over as my own flight was closed and pulling away from the gate. Turns out that the passenger in the wheelchair was dead - and had been for over 12 hours, but according to family who were traveling with him, it was cheaper to fly him than to send him via cargo. The deceased passenger didn't fly but it still amazes me that he ever made it past the screening point. During a flight One of my flight attendant friends was flying to Portugal on an uneventful flight when a passenger passed away just an hour before arrival. When they discovered the passenger was dead, on a full flight, just before final descent they improvised. A blanket, and a tightened seat belt covered the passenger and kept him strapped in. The flight was full so there was nowhere else to put him and the flight was descending(and he was seated beside a window), so covering him up and strapping him in was what they decided to do. Because it was an international flight and the death was deemed to have occurred outside of Portuguese airspace the aircraft was quarantined (but thankfully for the crew, they didn't have to sit out any of the quarantine period on board). It did make returning home a bit more complicated, but the crew did say the saving grace was the passenger who died was a Portuguese national, so the quarantine was much shorter than it might have been.

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