Woman forced to spend 10 hour flight next to a corpse after fellow passenger died during flight

A Swedish woman was partially reimbursed by Kenya Airways after she was forced to sit through a ten-hour flight to Tanzania next to a dead passenger.

Lena Pettersson, a journalist with Radio Sweden, boarded a flight in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and immediately noticed that a man in his 30s who was seated directly across the aisle from her was seriously ill.

‘He was sweating and having seizures,’ she told Sveriges Radio. ‘Air hostesses were there all along, but the plane took off anyway.’

The flight attendants put out a call for any passenger on board with medical experience who might be able to help, and someone eventually began performing cardiac massage on the ailing man.

However, efforts to revive the sick passenger failed, and he passed away just hours into the overnight flight bound for Dar es Salaam.

While the crew moved people seated next to the deceased man, there was nowhere for Pettersson or her friend to relocate.

When Pettersson returned from her trip, she lodged a complaint with Kenya Airways and demanded compensation.

After a couple of months of back-and-forth emails, she received $713 (roughly half her ticket price) and an apology.

Come on really. Unless he was beginning to decay and smell then how bad could it have been. I would rather sit next to a dead guy on a plane than some annoying person who insists on talking to you, keeps getting up to go to the bathroom or is constantly calling a flight attendant over to complain about something. I'm pretty sure United would consider this to be a premium priced seat.

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