Picture this you're cruising at 30,000 feet but then all of a sudden you or
someone else on the flight passes away what happens to that person are they
thrown off the plane or are they stored somewhere well today we're gonna find
out exactly what happens if someone passes away on an airplane I'm Charlie
and today we're going to find out what happens if you pass away during a flight
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may be thinking get real no one ever passes away on a plane but according to
flight attendants it's much more common than you'd imagine for example a month
ago a 34 year old woman passed away on a flight from LA to Melbourne there were
two doctors on board but they couldn't save her and a year ago a British woman
passed away on a flight from Pakistan to the UK in that case the passengers had
to sit with her body for two hours on the tarmac that's because for some
reason paramedics were not able to get onto the plane but what's the real
procedure for when this happens well in reality it differs from airline to
airline some larger and more luxurious airplanes have something named a corpse
cupboard this is basically a large Locker which is able to transport an
average-sized body for example singapore airlines airbus a340 had these corpse
cupboards but most smaller and less luxurious airplanes do not have these
cupboards and amazingly not all flight attendants are actually trained to deal
with the situation all European airlines have to comply with EU safety
regulations this includes being trained to use defibrillators and first-aid
procedures in the USA things are a bit different and airlines pick their own
training but in most cases what will happen to a body which is passed away is
they'll be moved to an empty row if there are no empty rows available then
that they're moved to business class just imagine that paying for business
class and then sitting next to a corpse also sometimes the bodies will be
covered up with a rug or a sheet if one is available one flight attendant named
Annette along told Business Insider I probably put a blanket over the person
she said she'd do this so that people would not look or take photos of the
body after all flight attendants want to make sure there's dignity Emrys
if someone passes away on the flight but did you know that flight attendants have
a secret code to say whether someone's passed away on board that code is Jim
Wilson if you hear your pilot or flight attendants mention the name Jim Wilson
it means someone's passed away on the plane after all 50,000 corpses are flown
every year so they have to have a nickname this way the passenger can be
talked about while not disturbing the public so they may say please be seated
while we remove a passenger Jim Wilson from their seats or they may say a
flight attendant is needed to deal with Jim Wilson but has there been any
reported times when people have passed away during a flight well the answer is
absolutely on the 1st of April 2019 a passenger passed away on a Qantas plane
she was Australian and 34 and she passed away despite two doctors on the airplane
she was going from LA to Melbourne her home and doctors did try to save her on
the plane fellow passengers on the flight expressed their shock on social
media one person wrote on snapchat someone actually passed away on my
flight home so sad also in March of this year a 63 year old British grandmother
passed away she had a heart attack on an easyJet flight but the family say they
do not blame easyJet the woman named Anne Rudkin was flying from the UK to
Malaga Spain also last year a 36 year old father was travelling from the UK to
New Zealand he was with his wife and two young kids but he passed away the plane
had to stop in Dubai and the man named Simon was removed from the airplane and
in 2014 a 23 year old woman passed away during a flight she was going from
London to New York City and on this flight again a doctor was on board and
he did try and help but his efforts were fruitless and she did pass away despite
only being 23 recently someone asked on the question-and-answer web site Quorra
what happens if someone passes away on a plane and a woman that named Sue Jackson
responded telling her own story about her husband she said my husband passed
away during a lone-wolf flight from New Zealand to Los Angeles they were in
business class and he went to sleep and never woke up apparently he passed away
due to lack of oxygen in his lung when this
happened a doctor who was on board came to try and check him out and try and
save his life sadly it did not work and Sue's husband
could not be saved so instead his body was covered up with a blanket and she
lay beside him until they landed the plane was then cleared of everyone
except the crew herself and her husband Keith but then a lot of people board
with the airplane police paramedics customs officials the coroner
immigration and airline management all came in to the plane he was then put on
a stretcher and wheeled away to a nearby hospital apparently on his death
certificate the place of death says flight nc5 and apparently when it
happened sue was even given a minder during the flight this mind has stayed
with her the entire flight and made sure she was okay as what happened was so sad
and shocking sue Jackman's story really is sad but it does go to show exactly
what happens if someone passes away on a plane so I hope now you'll curiosity
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