Family complains about dead passenger

April 26, 2001 5:17 AM

Family complains about dead passenger More air rage! Who said the meals on planes were not fresh and nutritious? Get the guy's gin and tonic.
posted by Postroad (12 comments total)

Wow. That probably made it pretty ackward if they had to climb over this guy to get out to use the lavatory.
posted by padjet1 at 6:53 AM on April 26, 2001

ew
posted by SentientAI at 6:59 AM on April 26, 2001

at least it wasnt tyler durden (fight club)
posted by monkeyJuice at 9:08 AM on April 26, 2001

That's just an horrific story, I can't imagine being forced to sit next to someone in that condition. And I can't believe there's no medical attendant along on those trips. I don't even know what to say.
posted by megnut at 10:54 AM on April 26, 2001

the trivialization of death is grotesque and hilarious. i motion to put a dying guy on every plane.
posted by elle at 12:49 PM on April 26, 2001

How about putting one healthy person on a plane full of dying people?

The article neglects to mention the cause of death. If someone sitting next to me on a plane starts frothing and dying, I'm thinking “ebola”...
posted by Danelope at 1:06 PM on April 26, 2001

Additionally, if you're listening, Mr. Haughey, could you please put some <form></form> tags around the Preview-ed post form? They're not showing up in Netscape, and I can't view-source (get the source of the data missing error) to check if this is the problem. Thanks!
posted by Danelope at 1:08 PM on April 26, 2001

elle,
a dying guy on every plane? It happens already -- I mean, that airplane food is killing lots of people every day, on so many planes...
posted by matteo at 2:08 PM on April 26, 2001

"You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital."

"A hospital? What is it?"

"It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."
posted by Hankins at 3:42 PM on April 26, 2001

how smug and first world of you all. this only happened because there is no air ambulance service in that part of the world.

should he have just been left to die on the island, when there was a small chance he would have made it if he got to a hospital on time?

how rude to place the comfort of paying passengers above his own survival...
posted by johnboy at 9:04 PM on April 26, 2001

Who's saying he should have been left to die on the island? My concern is that he was sent alone, with no one to comfort him, when he was obviously so ill. And I wouldn't want to sit next to someone so ill, suffering, knowing it was not within my power to help him. Maybe that was unclear.
posted by megnut at 1:28 PM on April 27, 2001

how rude to place the comfort of paying passengers above his own survival...

There's a big difference between ‘the comfort of paying passengers’ and the fact that a family was forced to watch as a terminally ill man sputtered and died. I don't know about you, but there are plenty of people out there who would be horribly affected by witnessing something like this.
posted by Danelope at 12:56 AM on April 29, 2001