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Two aeroplane passengers were forced to sit next to a woman who was found in an unresponsive state during the 14-hour journey.
Passengers Francesca and her husband Enrico, who would only provide their first names for privacy reasons, were travelling on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha to Sydney over a week ago, when their fellow seat-mate, a 60-year-old believed to be from Campbelltown in Sydney south-west, died right then and there.
The couple revealed via The Daily Mail how horrified they were at the lack of urgency among the cabin crew.
They allege that the cabin crew waited 20 or so minutes before they attempted to perform CPR and “just left her there” with a blanket covering her.
The couple had alerted the airline stewards after hearing the woman make a “weird noise”:
‘She looked like she was sleeping, but she was making this really loud noise,’ Francesca said.
Staff tried to wake the woman up and called for other crew members who brought an oxygen mask.
‘But then they just left,’ Francesca claimed.
The airline asserted that the passenger “could not be revived” but Francesca and Enrico who sat in front of the woman revealed that “it didn’t feel like they (cabin crew) did enough”.
At the time, the cabin crew kept saying it was alright, but it was clear that the elderly lady was not breathing. Then, Francesca claimed, another 20 minutes passed before a member of the cabin crew returned with another passenger to attempt to move the “limp” woman from her seat.
They tried CPR on her and used a defibrillator, but at that point, Francesca said she was gone.
‘Why didn’t they do that a half hour earlier?’
The crew had made an announcement asking for a doctor, to no avail. It was another half an hour before Francesca and Enrico were moved, and the woman was taken to the back of the plane where she was covered in a blanket.
When the plane landed everyone was told to remain seated while emergency crews tended to the dead woman. Francesca said that none of the authorities asked her anything.
Francesca and Enrico assert that the airline staff simply did not do enough to try and save the woman when they initially alerted the cabin crew to the strange sound she was making as she slept.
Their protocol might have been lacklustre, but honestly, there’s nowhere else to put a dead body when you’re miles above ground.
[source:dailymail]
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