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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is the story of the people who had to
fly with the dead body in their row?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
God? Who was as.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Cutter and didn't the woman like I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I don't know the whole story.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Who's pissed the couple, the Australian couple that had to
sit next to the dead body?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How far were they flying?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Like they weren't in a place where they could land
right like they were they were? Were they over water
or were they just like there's no reason to divert
the flight she's dead.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Well, isn't the size of the passenger issue here?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I did read that she she had gone to the
bathroom and she was coming out of the bathroom making
her way towards her seat, which she just fell and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Collapsed and like died immediately in the eye. It wasn't
like distress. And then she ended up passing like she
was dead.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
She went down.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know that, Like people rushed over there, but she
was done, and they I believe, if I remember correctly,
and somebody will have to help me here, I believe
that their plan was to schlep her up to like
the front of the plane. And I don't know what's
going on at the front of the plane, but that
they were gonna pull her up to the front of
the plane, but because of the customer size, they couldn't
(01:22):
drag her down the aisle, which I don't understand how
she's walking down the aisle, but anyway, they couldn't drag
her down the aisle. So she fell out by this
couple and they just told the couple and I guess
there was four seats in their row, so they just
told the couple, hey, slide down one and so the
couple slid down and the guy his seat. They picked
(01:44):
up the dead woman and put her in his seat right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Next to him. Yeah for four hours?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah he was he right next to her? Or was
there the separation seat?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So the wife was encouraged to move by a fellow
passenger who offered up a free seat next to her
right or bye, But Mitchell, that's the husband was not
that lucky. He was not asked to move one seat
over into empty seat in his row, so the deceased
woman was placed next to him in his original assign seat.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So he sat in his wife's seat.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why didn't they move him?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He was told you can't move watch me the Well
you can't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Wouldn't your ask be trotting up the first class the
that's the least you could do.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
He was told to stay seated as the corpse stayed
seated next to him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They did cover the corpse with some blankets, No they did. Oh,
he was there for four hours.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They didn't even let him de plain early they took
the blankets off. They seated as well. Can I ask
you a question?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Because yeah, So they land right four hours later and
they bring medics on to get her out right, and
they were like no, no, no, no, sir, stay and
they had to like pull all the blankets off and
then hoist her onto the gurney and then wheel her
out of there before he.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Could get up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, Diane's making a face, But can I ask you this,
and I'm being serious, you'd be able to just crawl
over the dead body to get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
As opposed to sitting there for four hours. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I don't know if I could, Diane.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I'd hop over to the next row and then
go out.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How are you hopping? Oh, like climbing over the seat
And for what are you an animal?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I don't care. I got a dead body next to me.
I'm getting away.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Been there for four hours, Yeah, four hours.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
And so they took off in Melbourne and we're eventually
getting to Venice, Italy, I believe, right, But they did
have a layover in Doha.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh okay, so we'll get you off of here when
we land.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All decent length flights. He went four hours with them
next to him.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Why would they not move them? I know, like the
wife got was.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Able to move to another row, right, Yeah, well they
told him you need to stay seated.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well you're on a flight, so what well you went
on to start just moving around. That's your seat, So
now you can sit in your wife's seat, and she'll
sit in your seat. Your wife, the dead person lay's dead, right,
I'm moving. There was nowhere to put her.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, no, no, there there were other empty seats for him.
That's who you should be worried about. Sister's dead.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yes, okay, can we be a little more respectful, okay?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I like when Mitchell and Jennifer saw spare seats on
their flight from Melbourne to Doha, they thought they'd lucked out.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
There's room to spread out, there's room to just kind
of have our own row together.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So fast, but everyone and he even in talking to
You Know What Australia's current affair, he addressed this everyone's
thinking of having to sit next to the dead person
as being the traumatic part. He's saying, how about we
watched to watch her die next to us. It's not
her corpse that was traumatizing. I mean, a minute ago,
she was alive.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That would be very traumatizing to me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But but he wants counseling offered by the airways because
of seeing a death in the air in the aisle
right next.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To that would bother me. That would bother me, Like you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Said, it was pretty instant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean it was out down done. Yes,
I don't want to see anybody die, but I would
be more traumatized by sitting next to the body.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't think I could climb over it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The picture they have of him, it looks like what
you often see. He looks so angry, but he's also
not he's looking straight ahead. He's a braw dog in
it for this flight is he's just staring.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
At the seat.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Look at it. Don't look at it? Would you look?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But it also looks like next to him, and they've
blurred it because it's a corpse, but it also looks
like it could be somebody who's clipping their nails. Like
you're just like, oh my god, like it's that face.
But then would you peak you realize the reality of
it is it is a dead woman. So is this blanket?
Is it tucked between her head and the seat? Yeah,
(06:23):
it's I've only seen the blurred photo. Have you seen
a non censored I.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Saw I have.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I saw a photo not of the actual body, but
a photo of Yeah, so they took the So.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Imagine she's in the aisle.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm well, no, I haven't seen her laying on the floor,
but I'm dead right when Marshall saw that, and so.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They put a blanket on. They moved my head forward.
They tucked the blanket in behind my head.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They pushed my head back and that keeps the blanket
from falling.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
No, but that raises another question. So she is in
the aisle seat?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I meant, well, they didn't move her next to
the window, Diane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They couldn't even get her down the oe.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What about Mitchell? So sorry, if you have to pee, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
There in the middle. For they're accommodating, they're not trapping
him next to a dead body.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I couldn't climb over her.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I only they wanted him to.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Four hours. You wouldn't take a peek?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh under the blanket?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, how about touch? No, I hope I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I got called disrespectful a few minutes ago because I
wanted to move.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, I hope not not. I but like just to
kind of like give it a little a armrest.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now, the flight attendant who you see in the photo
is right next to some sort of drink preparation area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Was that person positioned there for the duration or the
rest of the flight because of the situation?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Was this was?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
This just happened to be snapped when they standing there, right?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because what else is towards the back of that plane?
The toilet? Yeah, I mean that's where she ate it.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So this this we're just happening to see the flight crew.
They weren't there in case she tipped with.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No, she's I think she's belted in. I think they
had to get the extender. But yes, no, no, she
she came out of the bathroom and ate it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I listen, I've been belted in and fallen asleep and
then realized I was on my neighbor's shoulder. It happens.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, she's not sleeping, yes, so she's even more likely
to tip.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Unless rigamortis sets in.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Also, don't you start to smell after four hours? Kristen
wants to know if she's pooping?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, because because you release sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Thank god?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You know what, even if some came out, at least
she got rid of the big load when she went
in the first time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Did you see a katar?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I have at times claimed to have taken the dump
of death. This woman took the dump of death.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The airline statement. Now, first and foremost our thoughts are
with the family of the passenger who sadly passed away.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, so get over your film.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I love that first addressing that you shouldn't be so
self absorbed. You should respect the dead.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Also, I would be flying well, isn't it also a
little bit weird? I didn't even think about it till
you mentioned, like the galley like they still did drink service.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Oh yeah for that many hours?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, so you're reaching over her body to grab a
you know what, how about a bloody mary? I got it, sorry, ma'am,
oh I spilled you don't know. I like to think
you often see.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
A little bit of a game of tag when it
comes to with the crew as they're backing out or
moving forward, and who's getting what rose Maybe she pointed,
like take his order from the left side of the plane.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
No, you don't know. I mine looked. I wouldn't even
get a free drink.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I got to reach in for my wallet and I
have to lean a little bit to go.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Sorry, man, I.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Didn't do this in advance on the app.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sorry, wasn't playing in the drink until you died.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I pulled air pods out of my pocket.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You hit your.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Neighbor, Yeah, you hit that big stiff dead arm. I
feel bad for these people.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I feel bad for the family or the passenger who
sadly passed away.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, I do feel badly for them, But I had
to sit for four hours four hour?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Where am I going? And I'm with you, let me move.
I don't understand why they were saying you couldn't. But
if they say you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Or it wasn't until another passenger invited the wife right, yeah,
in the airline.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Why didn't the guy just get up, just get up
and move? Well, he did he moved into his wife seat? Yeah,
they were pumped. Their row had the two empty seats.
I think this flight was pretty full. Oh, I guess
her seat the deceased would have been open.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, go sit in that, Rather sit in that seat
than sit next to you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Was she with family on the flight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That I don't know? Oh, then I don't want to.
I'd rather sit by the dead body than even gamble.
Wouldn't they have said something?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, they didn't mention that, So I think she was
flying solo.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Because if that were the case, then you would switch
with the family and go, you sit with your aunt.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll be up here in your seats.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Perhaps you may be right there.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, you would switch and sit with your dead relative
or friend. Like if we were on a show trip
and I just Diane ate it, I would expect.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
One of us to sit with Diane and not some rando.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
And again, like you said, it's a customer of size
the yes. Do you think that the people in the
row she was originally sitting in when she got up
to go to the bathroom mumbled like, oh, this is
the worst flight. Crushed in this seat.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What's that don't smell like?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And it's like death. Where's he go?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, that's true. She never made it back up towards
her seat.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The only time I wouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Moved to sit by Diane's corpse is when we flew
with Ronnie because I wasn't gonna give up that first
class seat.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
No way, no way, let her die in coach.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Look what happens back there?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Ronnie Moore Wine dying?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The last thing I did was spill wine on Tyler.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Can you tell them to quiet down in the back.
I'm watching a live play.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Who is this? Yeah? Hi, who's this? This is James Brady. Hey, James,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I'd be taking a four hour dump if that happened
to me.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Oh, go sit in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Not a bad idea?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Is there is there a reason?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Though?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Thank you for the people. I just moved it. I
just moved there.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
There.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
They're wondering if this is how you comfort yourself?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I had a shrimp casadea.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wanted to get cold.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He knows he's eating. You're not breaking news to him. Hey,
tell Elliot he's eating. No dub that they can hear it. Oh, yeah,
well I just I just moved my plate aside. Also,
I did just finish the case OFDEA. Don't worry, I'm
gonna have the beef case.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Of da next.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no one is Is there some law, some rule?
Why did they not move him? That's just not an oversight.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, they reference in the second part of their statement
that they are following their policies and procedures. And now
after consoling and get well wishing the family of the deceased,
now they're contacting the patients that may have been affected
or impacted by the events.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, but there's their policy, is you you You don't
move just because somebody, just because somebody eats it.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
According to them, they've done everything by the book, thank you,
thank you, except be able to move her up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, yeah, but that's not their fault. That's her faulty. Yeah,
someone not on ozembic.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I wonder if they thought about requesting assistance from the passengers.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I can tell you right now, not it. I will.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I will jump in and help almost anyone. I am
not picking up the tootsies of a dead person to
get them up the to get them up the thing.
And they and do you realize it's not the problem
was is that she couldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
She couldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They couldn't drag her down the aisle because she was
too big. The only way you're getting that there is
to hoist over the seats. Oh my god, I don't
mean passing over the seats, but higher than the surfact.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So you're walking like this.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Uh uh, And like Chris had said, that's releasing my look,
i'd have hands on cheeks.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You got to hold him up from the middle.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Lady looks like she's crowdsurfing.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Chris says, Hey, the person in front of her was
able to recline without any complaining because we're just thinking
about him. Because they did the interview right. There are
people there, people very close around that.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Okay, I will argue nobody suffered worse than this guy.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Everybody saw her die.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
He had We're all we're all people right in front,
we're all faulting over to get away.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We are all in the boat of having seen her die.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh so, if they're in row twenty eight, the person
who saw her die in row twenty seven but is
sitting next to his wife holding her hand, has it
just as bad as me, whose wife left, and I'm
sitting next to big Dad.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It was you who called it a flight from hell.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That is, you have it worse than everybody else on
that flight.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Line Four Hi, elliot.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
The morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hey, who's this?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And this is Michael. I was on a flight from
Austin to Baltimore and a woman passed away, And I'll
tell you four things I remember about it, being right
next to her. One all bodily function. Release.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Two we had to.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Listen to her husband sitting next to her, screaming, Bob
the entire descent. Three when we landed, the police had
to come and investigate to make sure there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Was hold on, hold on, because I just want to
I just I need to be able to do something here.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, So number one was release.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Number. Release number two was her husband sitting next to
her screaming. Third was the police had to come on
and investigate when we landed, emergency landing to make sure
there was no foul play. And fourth, out of nowhere.
Like a month later, Southwest sent me one hundred dollars
coupon for my troubles.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Okay, So in the order of how bad things are,
the Southwest coupon is at the very bottom.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
How close? How close were you to this woman?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Saint Row.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I was on the window, husband in the middle, she's
on the aisle.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Then I'm gonna say it took family family whaling one
release to police Investigation three Southwest Coupon four.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Ye did you talk to the husband?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I was trying to console them, but it was it
was impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So this was like a surprise death.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Yeah, it was like during we took off from Austin
and and she started dying in the in the ascent,
and then the emergency landed in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh wow, so you were Thank god you weren't on
the flight long.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
No, well, we were on the flight long because when
we landed it took hours and hours because the flight
crew had to be changed out. They're not allowed to
fly again. And then we had that g and that
all in like, uh questioned by the police.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What do you what do you do to console the guy?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I'm a Bourbon and coke.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Great, great minds, I know, order to drink too.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
All right, very good?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I got, thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know what this one's onmbie. You want to double
I got you. Just leave the bottle by the way.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I didn't that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
There's no way this the big girl had family on
on board.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Because wouldn't that have company? I would have I didn't
even think of that.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And remember my mom swears somebody died on her flight,
which is total bs.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, the only family was Mitchell, who said, I don't
really know how I feel. I would like to talk
to somebody to make sure I'm all.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, And he's like, but we're still trying to have
fun on our holiday though, you know. I mean they
bought their tickets through Quantus Airways, right, who told them
the process for handling incidents on board and aircraft like
this is managed by the operating airline.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Oh so you'll have to take it up with Cutter air.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Wow, the release is real. Kristin called that. Kristen called that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
But the caller story is worse than now what in
the news?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, because of the whaling hospital. Well it's it's worse,
but better. Mitchell was not sharing a row with her
when she died. Mitchell also didn't have to try to
console the griever. That would be the worst. That would
be the worst, But we.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Know how to do it now.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, Bourbon and coke, there you go.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Hey, and we're sitting here for a while, right and
can't can't we get off the plane?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Can't you investigate me? Off the plane?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I get a couple of biscottis the ooh, y'all got
them bisco Off cookies.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Jonathan points out she did just use the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, but they always say no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I know this because I read when you go make
when you go make duty, that's just that, that's just
what's in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's not what's in the the.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Revolver, not in your full intestines.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No, haven't you gone back sometimes like thirty minutes later
and been like, oh my god, this is like I've
never gone before.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Ian writes, I was flying from Charlottesville or Charleston to
Charlotte yesterday morning, and I was awakened by this smell
of a seat mate's fart that was brutal everything. It's perspective.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Line for Hi Elliott the morning. Hi, This is me, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
This is Kristin.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Kristin? I am doing well? Thank you? What can I
do for you?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I actually tried calling the other week when you were
talking about people dying on planes in a foreign country.
I think someone called about it. I was flying back
from Jamaica last year and as we were boarding the
plane also southwest, I was standing. We were like, you know,
Group A was standing there and I'm looking at the
woman in the first seat who had gotten on maybe
(21:47):
three people ahead of me, and I looked at the
flight attendant and.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Was like, she's dead.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Her head was tilted.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It was just bad.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
She'd had a heart attack and died after boarding a plane.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh my god, what did they do?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
They stopped sporting, so that was useful, and then they
just held us all there for a really long time.
That you do not want to die in the Jamaica airport.
They're very, very slow, and there's no like medical response team.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
At the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
We're jamming.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It took like.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Forty five minutes for people to even get there to
deal with it.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Luckily, one of the women that had boarded with her.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Kids before us was a nurse, so they were trying
to you know, get a pulse or something. There was nothing. Eventually,
they just took us all off the plane. They had
to bring in you know, investigators, police, all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Everybody had to stay.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
There and it was a few hours before they took
everyone off.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh my god, and you were the one that knowed.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
How did can I can I ask this?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Did you like like the only time I've ever seen
a dead body was like an open casket.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
How did you? How were you able to tell she
was dead?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Her neck it just didn't look right.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
You know, it looks like someone was sleeping, but the
neck was just tilted in a not great way.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
And she was an older woman. It just it didn't
look right.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
That's the only thing, only way I can explain it
is I just looked at the flight attendant and I said,
something's wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I think she died, Like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It was just the way her neck was tilted was so.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Floppy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I guess like I would be afraid to go she's dead.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You're suspect number one.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Yeah, I don't think I'm allowed to go back to Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Unbelievable, All right, yes, But with the story you guys
were talking about the other week where somebody had called in,
We're like, well, what do you do if you're flying
and it's international? They told us we could book another flight,
so we we did. We all got we were on.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
A girls trip.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
We got on our phones, we booked a Delta flight,
figured we'd deal with South US after the fact. We
just needed to get home, right and they said, it's
no problem, you can go through customs.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You cannot.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
We got detained because we had at that point the
flight didn't really exist because they canceled it obviously, and
we had another flight that we we only had, you know,
we had our you know, our boarding passes, our tickets whatever.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Our shone he's done on our phones, and.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We had our passports with us, of course, but we
had no flight record of landing in the country other
than five days before, so as you're trying to get
through a different terminal, right, So it was a total
So anyway, we got surranded there for.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, all right, very good, very good. I appreciate it.
Thank you, ma'am, thank you. That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Line one. Hi Elliet the morning, real quick. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
This is me?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Yeah, Hi, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I was flying from DC to LA and we had
a person had a heart attack, and in the middle
of them having a heart attack, another passenger had a
heart attack and died right in front of me, oh
my god, wait right by you like too like too
like too two rows in front of me.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What did they emergency land you somewhere?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yeah, we had an emergency land in Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh man, that's that's the Beast
What is the story of the people who had to
fly with the dead body in their row?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
God? Who was as.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Cutter and didn't the woman like I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I don't know the whole story.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Who's pissed the couple, the Australian couple that had to
sit next to the dead body?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How far were they flying?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Like they weren't in a place where they could land
right like they were they were? Were they over water
or were they just like there's no reason to divert
the flight she's dead.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Well, isn't the size of the passenger issue here?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I did read that she she had gone to the
bathroom and she was coming out of the bathroom making
her way towards her seat, which she just fell and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Collapsed and like died immediately in the eye. It wasn't
like distress. And then she ended up passing like she
was dead.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
She went down.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know that, Like people rushed over there, but she
was done, and they I believe, if I remember correctly,
and somebody will have to help me here, I believe
that their plan was to schlep her up to like
the front of the plane. And I don't know what's
going on at the front of the plane, but that
they were gonna pull her up to the front of
the plane, but because of the customer size, they couldn't
(01:22):
drag her down the aisle, which I don't understand how
she's walking down the aisle, but anyway, they couldn't drag
her down the aisle. So she fell out by this
couple and they just told the couple and I guess
there was four seats in their row, so they just
told the couple, hey, slide down one and so the
couple slid down and the guy his seat. They picked
(01:44):
up the dead woman and put her in his seat right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Next to him. Yeah for four hours?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah he was he right next to her? Or was
there the separation seat?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So the wife was encouraged to move by a fellow
passenger who offered up a free seat next to her
right or bye, But Mitchell, that's the husband was not
that lucky. He was not asked to move one seat
over into empty seat in his row, so the deceased
woman was placed next to him in his original assign seat.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So he sat in his wife's seat.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why didn't they move him?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He was told you can't move watch me the Well
you can't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Wouldn't your ask be trotting up the first class the
that's the least you could do.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
He was told to stay seated as the corpse stayed
seated next to him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They did cover the corpse with some blankets, No they did. Oh,
he was there for four hours.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They didn't even let him de plain early they took
the blankets off. They seated as well. Can I ask
you a question?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Because yeah, So they land right four hours later and
they bring medics on to get her out right, and
they were like no, no, no, no, sir, stay and
they had to like pull all the blankets off and
then hoist her onto the gurney and then wheel her
out of there before he.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Could get up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, Diane's making a face, But can I ask you this,
and I'm being serious, you'd be able to just crawl
over the dead body to get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
As opposed to sitting there for four hours. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I don't know if I could, Diane.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I'd hop over to the next row and then
go out.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How are you hopping? Oh, like climbing over the seat
And for what are you an animal?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I don't care. I got a dead body next to me.
I'm getting away.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Been there for four hours, Yeah, four hours.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
And so they took off in Melbourne and we're eventually
getting to Venice, Italy, I believe, right, But they did
have a layover in Doha.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh okay, so we'll get you off of here when
we land.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All decent length flights. He went four hours with them
next to him.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Why would they not move them? I know, like the
wife got was.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Able to move to another row, right, Yeah, well they
told him you need to stay seated.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well you're on a flight, so what well you went
on to start just moving around. That's your seat, So
now you can sit in your wife's seat, and she'll
sit in your seat. Your wife, the dead person lay's dead, right,
I'm moving. There was nowhere to put her.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, no, no, there there were other empty seats for him.
That's who you should be worried about. Sister's dead.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yes, okay, can we be a little more respectful, okay?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I like when Mitchell and Jennifer saw spare seats on
their flight from Melbourne to Doha, they thought they'd lucked out.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
There's room to spread out, there's room to just kind
of have our own row together.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So fast, but everyone and he even in talking to
You Know What Australia's current affair, he addressed this everyone's
thinking of having to sit next to the dead person
as being the traumatic part. He's saying, how about we
watched to watch her die next to us. It's not
her corpse that was traumatizing. I mean, a minute ago,
she was alive.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That would be very traumatizing to me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But but he wants counseling offered by the airways because
of seeing a death in the air in the aisle
right next.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To that would bother me. That would bother me, Like you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Said, it was pretty instant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean it was out down done. Yes,
I don't want to see anybody die, but I would
be more traumatized by sitting next to the body.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't think I could climb over it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The picture they have of him, it looks like what
you often see. He looks so angry, but he's also
not he's looking straight ahead. He's a braw dog in
it for this flight is he's just staring.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
At the seat.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Look at it. Don't look at it? Would you look?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But it also looks like next to him, and they've
blurred it because it's a corpse, but it also looks
like it could be somebody who's clipping their nails. Like
you're just like, oh my god, like it's that face.
But then would you peak you realize the reality of
it is it is a dead woman. So is this blanket?
Is it tucked between her head and the seat? Yeah,
(06:23):
it's I've only seen the blurred photo. Have you seen
a non censored I.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Saw I have.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I saw a photo not of the actual body, but
a photo of Yeah, so they took the So.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Imagine she's in the aisle.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm well, no, I haven't seen her laying on the floor,
but I'm dead right when Marshall saw that, and so.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They put a blanket on. They moved my head forward.
They tucked the blanket in behind my head.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They pushed my head back and that keeps the blanket
from falling.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
No, but that raises another question. So she is in
the aisle seat?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I meant, well, they didn't move her next to
the window, Diane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They couldn't even get her down the oe.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What about Mitchell? So sorry, if you have to pee, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
There in the middle. For they're accommodating, they're not trapping
him next to a dead body.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I couldn't climb over her.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I only they wanted him to.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Four hours. You wouldn't take a peek?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh under the blanket?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, how about touch? No, I hope I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I got called disrespectful a few minutes ago because I
wanted to move.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, I hope not not. I but like just to
kind of like give it a little a armrest.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now, the flight attendant who you see in the photo
is right next to some sort of drink preparation area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Was that person positioned there for the duration or the
rest of the flight because of the situation?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Was this was?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
This just happened to be snapped when they standing there, right?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because what else is towards the back of that plane?
The toilet? Yeah, I mean that's where she ate it.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So this this we're just happening to see the flight crew.
They weren't there in case she tipped with.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No, she's I think she's belted in. I think they
had to get the extender. But yes, no, no, she
she came out of the bathroom and ate it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I listen, I've been belted in and fallen asleep and
then realized I was on my neighbor's shoulder. It happens.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, she's not sleeping, yes, so she's even more likely
to tip.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Unless rigamortis sets in.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Also, don't you start to smell after four hours? Kristen
wants to know if she's pooping?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, because because you release sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Thank god?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You know what, even if some came out, at least
she got rid of the big load when she went
in the first time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Did you see a katar?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I have at times claimed to have taken the dump
of death. This woman took the dump of death.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The airline statement. Now, first and foremost our thoughts are
with the family of the passenger who sadly passed away.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, so get over your film.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I love that first addressing that you shouldn't be so
self absorbed. You should respect the dead.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Also, I would be flying well, isn't it also a
little bit weird? I didn't even think about it till
you mentioned, like the galley like they still did drink service.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Oh yeah for that many hours?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, so you're reaching over her body to grab a
you know what, how about a bloody mary? I got it, sorry, ma'am,
oh I spilled you don't know. I like to think
you often see.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
A little bit of a game of tag when it
comes to with the crew as they're backing out or
moving forward, and who's getting what rose Maybe she pointed,
like take his order from the left side of the plane.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
No, you don't know. I mine looked. I wouldn't even
get a free drink.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I got to reach in for my wallet and I
have to lean a little bit to go.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Sorry, man, I.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Didn't do this in advance on the app.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sorry, wasn't playing in the drink until you died.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I pulled air pods out of my pocket.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You hit your.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Neighbor, Yeah, you hit that big stiff dead arm. I
feel bad for these people.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I feel bad for the family or the passenger who
sadly passed away.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, I do feel badly for them, But I had
to sit for four hours four hour?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Where am I going? And I'm with you, let me move.
I don't understand why they were saying you couldn't. But
if they say you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Or it wasn't until another passenger invited the wife right, yeah,
in the airline.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Why didn't the guy just get up, just get up
and move? Well, he did he moved into his wife seat? Yeah,
they were pumped. Their row had the two empty seats.
I think this flight was pretty full. Oh, I guess
her seat the deceased would have been open.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, go sit in that, Rather sit in that seat
than sit next to you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Was she with family on the flight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That I don't know? Oh, then I don't want to.
I'd rather sit by the dead body than even gamble.
Wouldn't they have said something?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, they didn't mention that, So I think she was
flying solo.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Because if that were the case, then you would switch
with the family and go, you sit with your aunt.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll be up here in your seats.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Perhaps you may be right there.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, you would switch and sit with your dead relative
or friend. Like if we were on a show trip
and I just Diane ate it, I would expect.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
One of us to sit with Diane and not some rando.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
And again, like you said, it's a customer of size
the yes. Do you think that the people in the
row she was originally sitting in when she got up
to go to the bathroom mumbled like, oh, this is
the worst flight. Crushed in this seat.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What's that don't smell like?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And it's like death. Where's he go?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, that's true. She never made it back up towards
her seat.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The only time I wouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Moved to sit by Diane's corpse is when we flew
with Ronnie because I wasn't gonna give up that first
class seat.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
No way, no way, let her die in coach.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Look what happens back there?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Ronnie Moore Wine dying?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The last thing I did was spill wine on Tyler.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Can you tell them to quiet down in the back.
I'm watching a live play.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Who is this? Yeah? Hi, who's this? This is James Brady. Hey, James,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I'd be taking a four hour dump if that happened
to me.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Oh, go sit in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Not a bad idea?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Is there is there a reason?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Though?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Thank you for the people. I just moved it. I
just moved there.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
There.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
They're wondering if this is how you comfort yourself?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I had a shrimp casadea.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wanted to get cold.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He knows he's eating. You're not breaking news to him. Hey,
tell Elliot he's eating. No dub that they can hear it. Oh, yeah,
well I just I just moved my plate aside. Also,
I did just finish the case OFDEA. Don't worry, I'm
gonna have the beef case.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Of da next.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no one is Is there some law, some rule?
Why did they not move him? That's just not an oversight.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, they reference in the second part of their statement
that they are following their policies and procedures. And now
after consoling and get well wishing the family of the deceased,
now they're contacting the patients that may have been affected
or impacted by the events.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, but there's their policy, is you you You don't
move just because somebody, just because somebody eats it.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
According to them, they've done everything by the book, thank you,
thank you, except be able to move her up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, yeah, but that's not their fault. That's her faulty. Yeah,
someone not on ozembic.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I wonder if they thought about requesting assistance from the passengers.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I can tell you right now, not it. I will.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I will jump in and help almost anyone. I am
not picking up the tootsies of a dead person to
get them up the to get them up the thing.
And they and do you realize it's not the problem
was is that she couldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
She couldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They couldn't drag her down the aisle because she was
too big. The only way you're getting that there is
to hoist over the seats. Oh my god, I don't
mean passing over the seats, but higher than the surfact.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So you're walking like this.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Uh uh, And like Chris had said, that's releasing my look,
i'd have hands on cheeks.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You got to hold him up from the middle.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Lady looks like she's crowdsurfing.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Chris says, Hey, the person in front of her was
able to recline without any complaining because we're just thinking
about him. Because they did the interview right. There are
people there, people very close around that.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Okay, I will argue nobody suffered worse than this guy.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Everybody saw her die.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
He had We're all we're all people right in front,
we're all faulting over to get away.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We are all in the boat of having seen her die.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh so, if they're in row twenty eight, the person
who saw her die in row twenty seven but is
sitting next to his wife holding her hand, has it
just as bad as me, whose wife left, and I'm
sitting next to big Dad.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It was you who called it a flight from hell.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That is, you have it worse than everybody else on
that flight.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Line Four Hi, elliot.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
The morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hey, who's this?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And this is Michael. I was on a flight from
Austin to Baltimore and a woman passed away, And I'll
tell you four things I remember about it, being right
next to her. One all bodily function. Release.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Two we had to.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Listen to her husband sitting next to her, screaming, Bob
the entire descent. Three when we landed, the police had
to come and investigate to make sure there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Was hold on, hold on, because I just want to
I just I need to be able to do something here.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, So number one was release.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Number. Release number two was her husband sitting next to
her screaming. Third was the police had to come on
and investigate when we landed, emergency landing to make sure
there was no foul play. And fourth, out of nowhere.
Like a month later, Southwest sent me one hundred dollars
coupon for my troubles.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Okay, So in the order of how bad things are,
the Southwest coupon is at the very bottom.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
How close? How close were you to this woman?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Saint Row.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I was on the window, husband in the middle, she's
on the aisle.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Then I'm gonna say it took family family whaling one
release to police Investigation three Southwest Coupon four.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Ye did you talk to the husband?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I was trying to console them, but it was it
was impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So this was like a surprise death.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Yeah, it was like during we took off from Austin
and and she started dying in the in the ascent,
and then the emergency landed in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh wow, so you were Thank god you weren't on
the flight long.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
No, well, we were on the flight long because when
we landed it took hours and hours because the flight
crew had to be changed out. They're not allowed to
fly again. And then we had that g and that
all in like, uh questioned by the police.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What do you what do you do to console the guy?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I'm a Bourbon and coke.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Great, great minds, I know, order to drink too.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
All right, very good?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I got, thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know what this one's onmbie. You want to double
I got you. Just leave the bottle by the way.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I didn't that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
There's no way this the big girl had family on
on board.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Because wouldn't that have company? I would have I didn't
even think of that.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And remember my mom swears somebody died on her flight,
which is total bs.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, the only family was Mitchell, who said, I don't
really know how I feel. I would like to talk
to somebody to make sure I'm all.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, And he's like, but we're still trying to have
fun on our holiday though, you know. I mean they
bought their tickets through Quantus Airways, right, who told them
the process for handling incidents on board and aircraft like
this is managed by the operating airline.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Oh so you'll have to take it up with Cutter air.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Wow, the release is real. Kristin called that. Kristen called that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
But the caller story is worse than now what in
the news?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, because of the whaling hospital. Well it's it's worse,
but better. Mitchell was not sharing a row with her
when she died. Mitchell also didn't have to try to
console the griever. That would be the worst. That would
be the worst, But we.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Know how to do it now.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, Bourbon and coke, there you go.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Hey, and we're sitting here for a while, right and
can't can't we get off the plane?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Can't you investigate me? Off the plane?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I get a couple of biscottis the ooh, y'all got
them bisco Off cookies.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Jonathan points out she did just use the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, but they always say no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I know this because I read when you go make
when you go make duty, that's just that, that's just
what's in the chamber.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's not what's in the the.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Revolver, not in your full intestines.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No, haven't you gone back sometimes like thirty minutes later
and been like, oh my god, this is like I've
never gone before.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Ian writes, I was flying from Charlottesville or Charleston to
Charlotte yesterday morning, and I was awakened by this smell
of a seat mate's fart that was brutal everything. It's perspective.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Line for Hi Elliott the morning. Hi, This is me, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
This is Kristin.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Kristin? I am doing well? Thank you? What can I
do for you?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I actually tried calling the other week when you were
talking about people dying on planes in a foreign country.
I think someone called about it. I was flying back
from Jamaica last year and as we were boarding the
plane also southwest, I was standing. We were like, you know,
Group A was standing there and I'm looking at the
woman in the first seat who had gotten on maybe
(21:47):
three people ahead of me, and I looked at the
flight attendant and.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Was like, she's dead.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Her head was tilted.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It was just bad.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
She'd had a heart attack and died after boarding a plane.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh my god, what did they do?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
They stopped sporting, so that was useful, and then they
just held us all there for a really long time.
That you do not want to die in the Jamaica airport.
They're very, very slow, and there's no like medical response team.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
At the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
We're jamming.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It took like.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Forty five minutes for people to even get there to
deal with it.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Luckily, one of the women that had boarded with her.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Kids before us was a nurse, so they were trying
to you know, get a pulse or something. There was nothing. Eventually,
they just took us all off the plane. They had
to bring in you know, investigators, police, all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Everybody had to stay.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
There and it was a few hours before they took
everyone off.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh my god, and you were the one that knowed.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
How did can I can I ask this?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Did you like like the only time I've ever seen
a dead body was like an open casket.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
How did you? How were you able to tell she
was dead?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Her neck it just didn't look right.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
You know, it looks like someone was sleeping, but the
neck was just tilted in a not great way.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
And she was an older woman. It just it didn't
look right.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
That's the only thing, only way I can explain it
is I just looked at the flight attendant and I said,
something's wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I think she died, Like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It was just the way her neck was tilted was so.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Floppy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I guess like I would be afraid to go she's dead.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You're suspect number one.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Yeah, I don't think I'm allowed to go back to Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Unbelievable, All right, yes, But with the story you guys
were talking about the other week where somebody had called in,
We're like, well, what do you do if you're flying
and it's international? They told us we could book another flight,
so we we did. We all got we were on.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
A girls trip.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
We got on our phones, we booked a Delta flight,
figured we'd deal with South US after the fact. We
just needed to get home, right and they said, it's
no problem, you can go through customs.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You cannot.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
We got detained because we had at that point the
flight didn't really exist because they canceled it obviously, and
we had another flight that we we only had, you know,
we had our you know, our boarding passes, our tickets whatever.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Our shone he's done on our phones, and.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We had our passports with us, of course, but we
had no flight record of landing in the country other
than five days before, so as you're trying to get
through a different terminal, right, So it was a total
So anyway, we got surranded there for.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, all right, very good, very good. I appreciate it.
Thank you, ma'am, thank you. That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Line one. Hi Elliet the morning, real quick. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
This is me?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Yeah, Hi, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I was flying from DC to LA and we had
a person had a heart attack, and in the middle
of them having a heart attack, another passenger had a
heart attack and died right in front of me, oh
my god, wait right by you like too like too
like too two rows in front of me.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What did they emergency land you somewhere?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yeah, we had an emergency land in Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh man, that's that's the Beast
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