Delta says body found in plane's restroom
ATLANTA - Delta flight attendants found the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane that landed in Atlanta early Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the company said.
The crew noticed the restroom was occupied on final approach, spokeswoman Keyra Johnson said. Flight 950 from Los Angeles landed at 5:51 a.m., and Delta officials have not said how long the woman may have been in the restroom.
Atlanta police were notified and met the plane at the gate, Johnson said.
The body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in suburban Atlanta for an autopsy later Wednesday, said GBI spokesman John Bankhead. Authorities were awaiting the results to determine the cause of death, Bankhead said.
Authorities have not released the woman’s name.
Atlanta police stationed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport respond to calls about dead bodies on airplanes a couple of times a year, police spokesman Officer Eric Schwartz said.
Quick question: does her family pick up the body at baggage claim?
I know that was wrong, but fuck you it was funny. I know you laughed.
This shit's happened before. In 2005, on an American Airlines plane from Toyko to Chicago, a 66yr old man was found locked (and deceased) inside the bathroom, 2 hrs after the plane landed.
Two hours.
I guess each time the cleaning crew passed by the locked (and supposedly empty) bathroom, they just saw the "occupied" slot, shrugged, and kept going?
Aren't they supposed to do a seat check? I mean, what exactly are those flight attendants doing when they walk past, pointing and mumbling to themselves, if they're NOT counting passengers? Figuring out whose luggage to lose? Picking people to randomly add to the homeland security watch list? Playing duck-duck-goose?
How the fuck does someone disappear from their seat on a flight, and no one notices until they find the body?
And oh-oh-oh, the fun doesn't stop there, folks! See, here in America we'll just lose the body and forget you exist. In Britain, of course, they have to be all proper and polite about it.
In March of this year, on a British Airways flight from Delhi to Heathrow, a woman in her seventies died in her seat in economy class. Note: she, unlike us savage Americans, had the DECENCY to pass in a proper way, not on the toilet like some aging pill-popping, white-sequined rock star.
Apparently this caused her frequent flyer miles to kick in, or the airline had a special going where dead passengers get all kinds of great perks, because the flight crew then carried her dead body from economy to first class, where they sat her in a nice, comfy, leather seat, propped her body up with pillows...and left her there next to her grieving daughter.
Which sucked for Mr. Paul Trinder, aka Dickwad, who "was catching up on sleep when he was woken by a commotion and opened his eyes to see staff manoeuvring the body into a seat."
“I didn’t have a clue what was going on. The stewards just plonked the body down without saying a thing. I remember looking at this frail, sparrow-like woman and thinking she was very ill,” said Trinder.
“She kept slipping under the seatbelt and moving about with the motion of the plane. When I asked what was going on I was shocked to hear she was dead.”
The woman’s daughter and son-in-law arrived soon after and began grieving. Trinder said: “It was terrifying. I put my earplugs in but couldn’t get away from the fact that there was a woman wailing at the top of her voice just yards away. It was a really intense, primal sound.
He put in his earplugs. What a guy; ladies, don't pass this one up!
It gets better.
He became particularly concerned about the state of the body. “When you have a decaying body on a plane at room temperature for more than five hours there are significant health and safety risks,” he said.
I don't know what he's talking about, personally; I mean, she's dead - what health risk is there for her? Don't worry Paul, she won't catch your cooties.
After the plane landed, those in first class remained on board for an hour before police and a coroner gave the all-clear.
“The police even started interviewing me as a potential witness, although I had no idea what had happened to the woman. I just kept thinking to myself: ‘I’ve paid more than £3,000 for this’,” Trinder said.
When contacted by BA about the complaint, Trinder says he was told he would not be compensated and should “get over” the incident.
I'd have loved to have been there for that. Or been the one to tell the fuckwit to get over it.
Paul's insensitivity aside, it does still beg a question: what DO the airlines do when a passenger decides he or she has had enough of the bad service and worse food, and decides to die in protest?
At least this woman got a seat. On an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York, a woman died after complaining that she couldn't breathe, asking for oxygen, and being told no by the flight attendant. Her body was then moved (read: dragged) to first class, where it was laid (read: left) on the floor and covered with a blanket.
Out of sight, out of mind?
Singapore Airlines has introduced “corpse cupboards” on its Airbus 340-500 aircraft. The airline's new fleet of Airbus A340-500 aircraft boasts a discreet (discreet?) locker next to one of the plane's exit doors which is long enough to store an average-sized body, with special straps to prevent any movement during a bumpy landing.
So...by discreet locker...you mean...a coffin?
They put coffins by the EXIT doors? Because, I guess, if the plane's going down...
...why not let the people who're ALREADY dead go first?
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