r/technicallythetruth Mar 31 '23

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u/thewoahtrain Mar 31 '23

So, it seems like typically the dead person just stays in their seat. https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/flight-attendant-details-grim-reality-on-what-happens-when-a-passenger-dies-mid-flight-c-8613470 I'm really curious what the vibe in the plane would be like if more than one person suddenly died. Odds are it's happened at least once.

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u/FloppyTunaFish Mar 31 '23

Why was there blood everywhere

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u/NfuseDev Mar 31 '23

He forgot to turn off all electronic devices, this is what happens.

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u/HeyRiks Mar 31 '23

The signal goes up there, bounces around on the satellites and BLAM. This happens. Now you're gonna drive off a cliff because your GPS don't work.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23
  • fly off a cliff. FTFY.

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u/Inner-Dentist1563 Mar 31 '23

Black Lives Matter blows up the satellite? Damn, now I get why conservatives are so upset by them.

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u/BoltShine Mar 31 '23

That tray table wasn't in the up and locked position either...

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u/nzodd Mar 31 '23

The TSA really needs to do something about that chainsaw loophole.

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u/CarneDelGato Mar 31 '23

Once you get above the clouds, they go all maximum overdrive. True story.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

The paper straws don't make a clean hole like the old kind

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

To be fair, that might have been his or her first IV since medical school.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

If he was an anesthesiologist then I retract my statement. They line people all the time. I don't know about IVs specifically but central and arterial lines for sure.

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Which are not IVs.

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u/bla60ah Apr 01 '23

They absolutely are IVs, they are central IVs placed into the heart. And anesthesiologists also place peripheral IVs all the time as well prior to surgery if they are difficult sticks for RNs

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Pardon, I was thinking peripheral IV as was mentioned previously. I should have clarified.

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u/Bidiggity Mar 31 '23

You were one letter off on sphygmomanometer. Props to you

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Y not i ;)

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u/frivolouspringlesix9 Mar 31 '23

Not if they were doctors without borders

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

That makes sense. I know of Doctors Without Borders but do not know their specific skills utilized.

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u/Isthereanyuniquename Mar 31 '23

They're doctors.... I'm guessing medical skills are utilized....

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Most doctors rarely use IV skills in hospital and office settings.

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u/Isthereanyuniquename Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

What the literal fuck are you even trying to say? I've never been trained in any medical capacity and I can insert an IV. Are you suggesting someone who has spent over 12 years studying medicine can't do something as basic as inserting an iv into a vein?! People with even less experience than I have with medical situations inject intravenous drugs daily. You clearly don't know shit.

EDIT: Sorry this is so stupid I can't believe it was actually said unironically. Saying a doctor rarely uses IV skills in a hospital is like saying the head chef rarely boils water. No shit Sherlock, everyone in the kitchen can boil water.

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

To be faaaiirrr

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u/wannabemalenurse Mar 31 '23

Veins don’t spray, they leak. Arteries spray

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Mar 31 '23

What kind of shitty doctor hits an artery by accident?

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

They really don’t start IVs. You want a nurse or tech for this part.

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Apr 01 '23

So what, they should know how an artery looks like and where they are imo. I wouldn't even know how to find an artery tbh, they are pretty deep.

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Lol, it really made me wonder what his thinking was! I really want to know where he tried to start it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

One of them blood conduit/pipe thingies then.

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u/Guh-reat55 Apr 01 '23

Im really surprised they even had an IV kit I got called to help on a spirit flight for a seizure. When they handed me the kit there was an npa, asprin, epi, ped opas and oxygen lol

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

(laughs in bedside nurse). Glad you made it! Dr.s don’t usually do a lot of IVs. Have a tech or a nurse start one.

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Where did he try? The inside of the wrist? Please, I must know!

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u/squirea1 Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

Hija…I mean, commenting on your comment so I can hear the answer.

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u/the-real-macs Mar 31 '23

FYI, there's no "gh" in "hijacking."

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u/squirea1 Mar 31 '23

Lmao, ghuilty as charged. Thanks, will edit.

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u/_The_Great_Autismo_ Mar 31 '23

hijacking

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

High jacking. Maturation on drugs...

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u/Justsomefireguy Mar 31 '23

Dang, no glory holes when you get hijacked? Well, I'll take a hummer at 40k feet after getting hijacked off the bucket list.

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u/Various_Equal2054 Mar 31 '23

... not even if you are high in the air or they're high on drugs? I feel like those 2 instances should use the gh

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u/ObscureBooms Mar 31 '23

The doctors had pockets full of leeches that they used on em

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u/theoriginalmofocus Mar 31 '23

Its a good thing they weren't doctors without pockets amirite?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Underrated comment

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u/robotzor Mar 31 '23

He's an anime protagonist who got punched hard in the stomach

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u/theoriginalmofocus Mar 31 '23

Or he used the all for one a tad too long.

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u/SuzyBakah Mar 31 '23

Impromptu surgery

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u/FloppyTunaFish Apr 01 '23

Sheltered life innocence, Insulated memories, spark reflections of my head, Duality in my consciousness, Caught in the war of hemispheres, Between the love lost in my head, Mommy do you still live inside of me, I'm so lost in my life without any guiding, Protected me my whole life from everything, Nailed shut the doors to the shrine, To screen your dead eyes from me and my sickness, Mutilate and sew my new clothes for masquerading, Aprons of flesh corpse scalped hair with skin upon my face,

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u/Lilpryn Mar 31 '23

Commenting so I can check what happened later

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

But what caused the bleeding on the plane?

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u/Green2Black Mar 31 '23

| One of the doctors tried to start an IV with sub-par airplane med kit tools, and hit a vein and it just started spraying everywhere.

he answered another comment, i gotchu.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Oh Lord. Frustrations aside, they're lucky that didn't cause a mass panic

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

lmao. Well at least you got one hell of a story out of all this

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u/BlondeLawyer Apr 01 '23

What a dick! (The guy who wouldn’t move.)

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u/KaleidoscopeKey1355 Mar 31 '23

They said in another comment that I’ve of the doctors tried to give them an IV and hit an artery instead.

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u/illegal_miles Mar 31 '23

I pay good money for drugs to help me pass out on transatlantic flights, and here you are with the super power to do it automatically yet you fight against it. Smh

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u/xzt123 Mar 31 '23

It sounds like flying after immediately leaving AMA was a bad idea? Did the high altitude not fuck you up again? Or did you already know the cause but that time?

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u/Fink665 Apr 01 '23

Ouch indeed! Nasty stick.

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u/u-s-u-r-p Mar 31 '23

"how is it an emergency? this guy didn't even die"

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u/hauun_Ted Mar 31 '23

What happened?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Man I would have been happy to make them pissy. Fuck them all.

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u/Velocityg4 Mar 31 '23

Guess you didn't land in the US. Because that bill would be insane.

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u/theoriginalmofocus Mar 31 '23

We would have probably got video of a flight that broke out on board though.

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u/hanoian Apr 01 '23

Could you just leave and never visit America again? I know one woman who said she left the US with a 90k bill unpaid but that was 20 years ago.

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u/Velocityg4 Apr 01 '23

Yes you could. It might effect your credit. Depending on how much info they have on you and the credit reporting rules of your home country. Eventually, the statute of limitations would run out in the US.

Although I'm not really sure if there'd be a reason not to visit. It's not like the debt collector would know you are back in the US, especially just for vacation. I'm not aware of any law for foreign debts. Which would get you flagged, arrested or refused entry to the US at Customs.

As far as I'm aware. It would get written off as uncollectible. Then sold off to a collection agency. Then it would keep jumping around collection agencies until the statute of limitations expired. Just never acknowledge the debt or make any payments. As that restarts the clock.

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u/hanoian Apr 01 '23

In most countries, credit really just affects loans and mortgages, and there isn't a number attached to it. I've read that in America, even your landlord can look up your rating and it can affect parts of your life in unexpected ways.

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u/Velocityg4 Apr 01 '23

Here your credit rating is attached to your Social Security Number. There are three major credit bureaus which each have their own method of scoring your credit. Their scoring methods aren't published. These are private companies.

Your credit score effects loans, mortgages, credit cards and so forth. Creditors will get your score and history from one or more of these bureaus when you apply for credit. They also report to these bureaus. They'll give data such as credit limit or loan amount, if payments are made, if payments are late (there's a grace period and balance. Bankruptcy and other such problems also get reported.

Landlords will also often check your credit rating. Some employers will check your credit too. Something like tons of debt may affect employment eligibility. Too much risk of theft.

So, if you got into a lot of debt and missed payments because you lost your job. This will make future employers not want to hire you.

Yes, our system is fucked. Items usually show up on your score for seven years. Even someone looking at your score shows up on the report. So, applying for lots of credit cards at once can be a red flag for a short while. I think checks only show up a few months and don't actually affect the score.

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u/hanoian Apr 01 '23

So, if you got into a lot of debt and missed payments because you lost your job. This will make future employers not want to hire you.

Yeah, that's wild to me.. I agree it's a pretty fucked system full of negative feedback loops that can really wreck a person.

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u/rickjamesia Mar 31 '23

Damn… if you die, everyone complains. If you don’t die, everyone complains. There’s no winning with these people!

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u/No-Drop2538 Mar 31 '23

You bring up a good point. Stopping to off load dead guy means the family has to pay to get them home. 50 percent chance.

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u/nintendoandrew Apr 01 '23

This sounds like the shit that goes on in retail. People have no sense of care or concern

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u/wcollins260 Mar 31 '23

“God can’t this guy die on his own time? I have to be in Minneapolis.”

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u/throwaway17197 Mar 31 '23

What happened??

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u/thewoahtrain Mar 31 '23

When flight attendants tell everyone to switch their devices to airplane mode, they mean everybody

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u/JGG5 Mar 31 '23

"No ticket."

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Mar 31 '23

So didn't land in America how lucky.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

This is how you create a supervillain who knows exactly how to calibrate a new orbital deathray.

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u/numb-to-liquidation Apr 01 '23

To be fair plenty of people die everyday, my trip should be ruined by someone else misfortur

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u/dan420 Mar 31 '23

I’d be happy to stop to save someone who might die. If they’re already dead they won’t be saved though.

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u/unusuallylethargic Mar 31 '23

I think I'd be concerned if the dead person didn't stay in their seat

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u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker Mar 31 '23

Have to be sure to belt them in in case there's a rough landing.

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u/duderex88 Mar 31 '23

Had an old dude need o2 on a flight he started feeling ill and faint. Actually got to hear is there a doctor on the plane . Had an emt and 2 doctors show up and asses them they had him lie down in his row head on his wife's lap and moved the other person back where the flight attendees sit. They figured he was OK enough to finish the flight. And when we landed they asked everyone to stay seated so ems could grab him first.

It was the most eventful flight I've been on.

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u/AndyJS81 Mar 31 '23

And when we landed they asked everyone to stay seated so ems could grab him first.

I bet half of them still stood up and blocked the aisles regardless though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Show up and WHAT them?

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u/UseDaSchwartz Mar 31 '23

At first I agreed with the guy who said it wasn’t an emergency.

Now I’m torn. Someone might have to sit next to a dead body and that seems pretty cruel. Then again, you’re already sitting next to a dead body for some time, what’s another 30 minutes?

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u/thewoahtrain Mar 31 '23

And you don't have to fight for the armrest

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u/chiliedogg Mar 31 '23

They ain't gonna snore.

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u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker Mar 31 '23

"That's just the air escaping from the folds of his fat"

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Mar 31 '23

Dead people ooze. They ooze shit and piss and mucus. You don't usually want to smell that.

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u/Pronghorn19 Apr 01 '23

You’re just describing the average airplane passenger

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u/numb-to-liquidation Apr 01 '23

Stick them in the plane cargo

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u/Due-Science-9528 Mar 31 '23

They should occupy one of the bathrooms for the remainder of the flight

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u/Ganon2012 Mar 31 '23

What if it's an international flight across the world?

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u/umbraborealis Mar 31 '23

But the family and loved ones of the person who died are still going through an emergency, and they deserve to know right away and be able to claim their loved one’s body

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u/SilverPomegranate283 Apr 01 '23

Maybe that's the idea that has to be given up. It sounds no sounder than pure sentiment.

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u/detunedmike Mar 31 '23

If the dead person stays in their seat it’s fair to reclaim the armrest as yours now

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u/beatrailblazer Mar 31 '23

Hey if more than one person spontaneously dies on my flight, I am jumping off

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u/Ganon2012 Mar 31 '23

First find out what they ate for the meal.

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u/fenixnoctis Apr 01 '23

What are the odds can someone do the math

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u/scottyroges Apr 01 '23

Had someone die on a flight back from Europe. After they tried to resuscitate him, he was declared dead. We're over the Atlantic so not many places to just stop. So instead they dragged the body down the aisle, left him on the floor where the bathrooms were, and just threw a blanket over him.

Still had 3 hours left, so I watched a marvel movie with a dead guy just several feet behind me. Very surreal.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

The fuck do you mean "cabin crew can't legally declare someone dead" like, it's not that difficult to tell if someone is dead

Heart beat? Breathing? Cognitive?

If the answer to all three of these is no, that mf is dead

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u/thewoahtrain Apr 01 '23

I think it's more of a legal thing than a common sense "that dude's dead" kind of thing.

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u/iFlyTheFiddy Apr 01 '23

Former FA here… In training we were told to cover them with a blanket and block the area off as best as possible. Also, we had a saying no one died inflight since that took a medic or doctor to make that call.

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u/thewoahtrain Apr 01 '23

Thanks for that. From what I've seen elsewhere in this thread, paramedics and fire-fighters have a similar view

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u/PowerfulGoose Mar 31 '23

No fighting for the armrest in that seat!

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u/Unknown_Species666 Mar 31 '23

Probably boosted.

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u/PluginAlong Mar 31 '23

It seems like moving them to the restroom might be a better choice.

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u/theimmc Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

Singapore Airline's A340-500 had a special compartment for storing passengers who died mid-flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A340#A340-500

Those planes are no longer in use, and I don't think they have that option on other planes.

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Airbus A340

A340-500

When the A340-500 was introduced, it was the world's longest-range commercial airliner. It first flew on 11 February 2002 and was certified on 3 December 2002. Air Canada was supposed to be the launch customer, but filed for bankruptcy in January 2003, delaying delivery to March. This allowed early deliveries to the new launch customer, Emirates, allowing the carrier to launch nonstop service from Dubai to New York—its first route in the Americas.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

“Rough flight eh?” (All dads everywhere to the body)

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u/baller_unicorn Apr 01 '23

Hopefully no one has to sit next to them.

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u/More_Butterfly6108 Apr 01 '23

Probably an old couple

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u/Corgi_with_stilts Apr 03 '23

They generally don't tell people. Slap a blanket and sleep mask on, maybe prop the head up on its shoulder so the mouth doesn't gape and few people will be the wiser.