Well now we’ve finally finished with February, you may be thinking of holidays for this year.
If so you may be thinking of “turbo -propping” off to somewhere warm and sunny, but as we all know only too well issues can arise with air travel which are not always to our liking.
For example it’s not that uncommon to find yourself sitting next to someone who probably ought to have booked a whole row to themselves, or issues might arise if the person in front of you decides to recline their seat so as to have a comfortable nap, whilst this might leave you unable to eat your food in comfort or watch the video playing on the very seat now lying in your lap rather than being in the proper vertical position.
What options do you have?
Well you could always ask a flight attendant to intervene which may, or may not resolve the problem.
But what would you do if you found yourself were forced to sit next to a dead body for 4 hours?
This is exactly what happened to Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin travelling from Melbourne to Doha aboard a Qatar Airways flight.
About 10 hours into the flight, a woman walked out of the toilet and promptly collapsed in the gangway.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to revive her, flight attendants tried to move her towards business class, but due to her girth she became wedged in the aisle!
As a result her body was strapped into one of the spare seats occupied by the couple who were asked to move over and make way.
Well at least she wouldn’t disturb them with incessant chatter, but it might have proved a bit tricky to get passed her if they needed the loo, and it certainly wouldn’t exactly add to the enjoyment of any repast or drinks served during the remainder of the flight!
Although there were a number of spare seats nearby, the couple were not offered the chance of moving, but were instead faced with even more issues after the aircraft had landed, as they were told to stay put whilst medical teams removed blankets covering the corpse.
Let’s hope they got off before their baggage stopped going round on the carousel.
Later on today’s show, Margaret Mills told us of the Essex connection with Henry VIII’s fixer, Sir Thomas Moore.
Sir Thomas Moore was a first rate lawyer, so was just the type of man the king needed to help him rule the roost.
He and the king were indeed very close friends.
Unfortunately it’s all well and good being the top lawyer in the land, but if the man writing the laws, decides to depart from the usual norms and go off on a different tack, there can be just one winner.
So when Sir Thomas Moore refused to back down, the result was a foregone conclusion.
If you missed what Margaret told me today, you can listen again here: –
Hope to see you again next week,
Scott
