IoS: BA places corpse next to first-class passenger

On Mar 18, 8:21 am, James Robinson wrote:
So it's OK if the dead passenger is left right beside someone in economy?
What if she had a middle seat?

Then she would have been less likely to fall over. Duh.

It's a shame Trinder didn't have a camcorder with him.

"Craig Welch" wrote in message
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Sancho Panza wrote:
"Craig Welch" wrote in message
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John Doe wrote:

It is absolutely unhygienic to keep a corpse in open spaces next to
other people, especially for a very long flight.
No it's not.

Is there a specific reference to support that biohazard criteria?

Which bio-hazard criteria?

The prior post denied that it is unhygienic to keep corpses in open spaces
with people. The simple question is whether you have a reference to support
that or not.

John Doe wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:

Nasty. He should get some sort of compensation.

Nope. He should get over it, as the airline suggested.



Assuming this isn't a hoax, the passenger should have demanded he be
moved if they were unwilling to move the corpse.

Normal airlines would put put the person in a body bag and stowe in in a
lavatory. In the case of Singapore, on its 340-500s, they have stowage
for a dead body so it doesn't close down one of the lavatories.

It is absolutely unhygienic to keep a corpse in open spaces next to
other people, especially for a very long flight.


If BA really did what was written in that text, I suspect they are about
to get a visit from health inspectors. My gut tells me this article is a
hoax.

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would normally be
referred to as a row.

Craig Welch wrote:
Frank F. Matthews wrote:

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would normally
be referred to as a row.


Seats don't have to be adjacent to comprise a row. In a typical BA 747,
rows 4 and 5 have each have four seats.


A strange concept of "row".

So the guy could have been complaining of a corps in his 'row' with two
aisles in between them. I really wonder where everyone was.

Craig Welch wrote:
Frank F. Matthews wrote:

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would normally
be referred to as a row.


Seats don't have to be adjacent to comprise a row. In a typical BA 747,
rows 4 and 5 have each have four seats.


2 adjacent seats would be a row.

Craig Welch wrote:
Mike Hunt wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:

Frank F. Matthews wrote:

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would
normally be referred to as a row.



Seats don't have to be adjacent to comprise a row. In a typical BA
747, rows 4 and 5 have each have four seats.


2 adjacent seats would be a row.


'Row 5' refers to a window seat; two adjacent seats in the middle; and
another window seat.


I was commenting on the statement that "pairs of adjacent seats" can not
normally be considered a row.

"Craig Welch" wrote in message
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Bogart wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:33:00 GMT, Craig Welch
wrote:

Sancho Panza wrote:
"Craig Welch" wrote ...
Sancho Panza wrote:
"Craig Welch" wrote ...
John Doe wrote:
It is absolutely unhygienic to keep a corpse in open spaces next to
other people, especially for a very long flight.
No it's not.
Is there a specific reference to support that biohazard criteria?
Which bio-hazard criteria?
The prior post denied that it is unhygienic to keep corpses in open
spaces with people. The simple question is whether you have a reference
to support that or not.
You referred to 'that [sic.] biohazard criteria'. The simple question is
'which bio-hazard criteria'?

Craig, if he said that the sun rises in the east you would stamp your
widdle feet and demand a site. Little man it's time you got over
yourself

So you don't know either ...

As earlier mentioned, many of the newly departed suffer from having beshat
themselves right at the departure gate. Additionally, during the immediate
post-mortem cooling period, some of the terminally cadaverous develop rather
offensive noise-making potential, from outright barks to loud gurgles and
even involuntary flatulence. Why, rigor will occasionally cause a lad to
rear upright, discomfiting to no small extent those sitting nearby.

All of those characteristics, while not universal, are enough to make
sitting beside a fresh corpse potentially unpleasant. As for bio-hazard,
different strokes for different folks, but at least on international
flights, a bit of **** can be hazardous...

TMO

Mike Hunt wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:

Frank F. Matthews wrote:

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would normally
be referred to as a row.



Seats don't have to be adjacent to comprise a row. In a typical BA
747, rows 4 and 5 have each have four seats.


2 adjacent seats would be a row.

Perhaps. In such a case I would complain about being seated next to a
corpse instead of that it was at the end of my row. I suspect that the
complaint would be more efficacious in that form.

Craig Welch wrote:

Mike Hunt wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:

Frank F. Matthews wrote:

One point that suggests a hoax is the reference to the row he was
sitting in. While BA first class on a 747 does have some pairs of
adjacent seats for the most part there is nothing that would
normally be referred to as a row.



Seats don't have to be adjacent to comprise a row. In a typical BA
747, rows 4 and 5 have each have four seats.


2 adjacent seats would be a row.


'Row 5' refers to a window seat; two adjacent seats in the middle; and
another window seat.


Both ends being isolated window seats well behind the center seats in
the same 'row'. Thus the body was at least an aisle away and probably
not normally in view.

Per Craig Welch:
Really? The lavatories on international flights are often covered in it,
to a degree that would not be acceptable at a ground location.

Yet Another Reason I'm glad I don't fly much...
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PeteCresswell