<p>[BBC</a> News - Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport](<a href=“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8604663.stm]BBC”>BBC News - Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport)</p>
<p>At least he probably wouldn’t have been one of those annoyingly fidgety or overly talkative seatmates!</p>
<p>I was on a flight during which a passenger died. We were diverted to another airport immediately. The deceased and spouse got off the plane there. What was rather unnerving was when they removed the body using a kind of board that slides along the tops of the seats. We were asked to duck down while it passed over our heads. </p>
<p>I felt very sorry for the spouse, who as far as I could tell was left in a strange city with the corpse of her husband. I hoped that the airline did something to help her. I also felt for the “doctor on board” who was called to the dead or dying man but who could obviously do nothing.</p>
<p>According to the article they were German nationals but they live in England (Oldham, Manchester is in England). It is slightly different to die on board than to try and take your already dead spouse on board in a wheelchair.</p>
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I can’t imagine - that sounds worse than “rather unnerving” to me!</p>
<p>Oh my - Consolation - that is freaky. I will probably have a nightmare having just read about it.</p>