Swede nets refund after flying with dead man
Published: 23 Jun 12 16:35 CET | Print version
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A Swedish woman has received compensation from Kenya Airways after having to fly from Europe to Tanzania sitting next to a man who had died shortly after take off, according to a report in the Expressen daily.
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Pettersson works as a reporter for Sveriges Radio (SR), the state broadcaster which first broke the story of her macabre holiday flight to east Africa.
When Pettersson boarded her Dar es Salaam-bound flight at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport she noticed that her co-passenger wasn't looking on top form.
"He was sweating and was having convulsions," she told SR, adding that although the flight attendants were present, the plane took off all the same.
When the aircraft was airborne staff put out a call for medical help and while the ailing man was subsequently given cardiac massage, he died a few hours later.
With Kenya Airways staff seemingly baffled by the incident and unsure of their next course of action, Pettersson was obliged to sit only a narrow aisle away from the dead man for the remainder of her overnight flight.
After her holiday, Pettersson decided to seek compensation from the airline, concluding that she had not been entirely satisfied with her flight.
After a couple of months of email communication with Kenya Airways, Pettersson was refunded some 5000 kronor ($713), around half the cost of her ticket.
"This feels much better. It is reasonable," she said to SR.
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That is not a good idea. Newly dead bodies sometimes leak some rather disgusting fluids and semi-fluid materials. Having these things in an overhead rack would enable them to rain down on the passengers. Plus it would be the devil to clean up afterwards. They should have belted him securely into his seat after covering him with a blanket. And served free drinks to everyone to toast him on his way to whatever afterlife he believed in.
Is that how broadcast license fees are spent?
Eh, sorry, but isn't asking for a refund making a fuss??
The best course of action would have been to put the body in one of the lavatories, and lock it. The living passengers would surely have managed with one toilet less.
Kenya Airways, by the way, does not fly from Amsterdam to Dar es Salaam. KLM does, with a stop at Arusha.
Of course my remark was facetious although the storage bins seem to be molded plastic with quite a large lip at the bottom. My thoughts were that if there was no need to preserve a crime scene that the body could have be relocated to a lavatory(Johan Rebel seemed to have been thinking as I was). My concern was not just one for the emotional discomfort of the other passengers but one of quarantine of possible pathogens. Lavatory vents could have been sealed to reduce the recirculating air flow and the body could have been somewhat preserved with the limited bags of ice.
Yes, broadcast licensing fees are used to pay the staff so they can go on vacation abroad. Does this concept come as a surprise for you?
Deaths happen and don't really see how a bit of money is going to make her feel better. Ridiculous compensation culture.
She should see the positive side that she wasn't kept awake by her fellow passenger snoring or climbing over her to get to the toilet.
Once the fella was dead, there wasn't much point anyway, just more hassle and cost for his family to get the body from a previously unconnected country.
Still unsure how exactly that 7000kr would settle Petterson's dissatisfaction...no doubt she'll be giving it to the family of the man who died...