That's actually what I want to happen, instead of being buried. Put a skydiving suit on me, and fill up a backpack with laundry and throw my dead body out of a plane.
Man walking in Disneyland for the first time with his family: ah, lovely!
Body *falls from sky*
People and his family *screams in terror*
Man: you could say it is *clears voice* drop dead gorgeous.
True but depending on the length of the flight and temperature and things like that keeping a body in the passenger compartment may not be a good idea. When someone dies, their body will usually empty itself out...so now you are sitting for 3 hours with a soiled corpse...and where is the corpse? The galley? A seat?
I think the airline made the right decision.
I guess it was an urban legend that the company threw a blanket over them and gave them a newspaper as to not frighten the other passengers and keep on flying calmly.
Well... not necessarily. There’s no “blanket policy” on what happens if you are dying or die on a flight. Individual airlines have their own policies, and it’s usually “case by case.” If the plane has storage room a body may be moved there, it might be allowed to be placed on the floor in a crew area out of sight, or moved to a free row or a tow may be vacated. They generally try to treat the body respectfully but also keep it from view of passengers. If a flight is totally full and there’s nowhere to put a body- they do leave it in the seat. Many airlines won’t make an emergency landing for a dead passenger either.
And again- case by case. A flight may be in a situation where due to available fuel and lack of fueling or airports that can accommodate it just makes more sense to fly to the destination. Looking at a specific case like a transatlantic flight - whoever is responsible for making the call might have different judgment than another person in a similar case- so one person may say turn around and make an emergency landing before it becomes too much trouble to extradite the body- another might say to keep going so the passengers don’t have to back track several hours, wait for another flight, then make the trip all over. Or it could be a decision made on cost alone- what is cheapest or best protects the “bottom line” and “image” of the airline?
Tl:dr- and in conclusion- it’s entirely possible and completely legal that an airline COULD disguise s dead passenger as sleeping, and not notify passengers of the death or hide the death. Did the instance you describe happen specifically? I don’t feel like looking it up honestly. COULD it happen- yes. Actually we could have been on a flight it happened and not know. Heck- passenger airliners transport bodies all the time as cargo, so if you fly enough you’ll statistically eventually share a plane with a dead person.
Body *drops*
Parents: how about a dead man?
Body *falls from sky*
People and his family *screams in terror*
Man: you could say it is *clears voice* drop dead gorgeous.
I think the airline made the right decision.