YOUR 15 MINUTES: Corpse On A Plane

A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, British newspapers reported on Monday. Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun tabloids said. "The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows." What, couldn't they fit it in the overhead compartment?

The woman's daughter was also upgraded and spent the rest of the nine-hour flight from Delhi to London grieving next to her dead mother, the Sun reported. That is probably one of the worst things I've ever read. The Guardian newspaper said the incident happened last week. British Airways has apologized for any distress suffered, according to the reports. The Mirror quoted BA as saying: "We apologize, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption." [source]

Oh my God can someone say emergency landing? They need to fly this plane directly into a therapist's office. This makes all of the US passengers stuck in recent storms look like a bunch of crying 2 year-olds. I'd take 9 hours on the tarmac over a body flying around the first class cabin any day.