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May 23, 2006 2:50 pm US/Eastern

Woman's Death Goes Unnoticed On Local Flight

Nobody Realized The Sleeping Elderly Woman Was Actually Dead

Ted Scouten

Reporting

(CBS4 News) FT. LAUDERDALE The next time you take a flight, you might want to make sure the passenger sleeping next to you is really just taking a nap.

That’s because a 78-year old woman died while on a cross-country flight out of Fort Lauderdale and everyone on the plane thought she was just sleeping.

Officials with Delta Airlines said the woman died on flight 503 to Salt Lake City over the weekend.

According to the flight crew and passengers, no one realized she had passed away until after the plane landed.

Flight attendants and some passengers said they only realized what had happened once the plane began to empty out and she didn’t move.

One EMT at the scene said the woman was dead long enough for rigor mortis to set in.

An autopsy is being performed to determine how the woman died.

[llm60 0]

Thats crazy you would think someone would notice!!! Wouldnt there be some kind of smell???

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Thats crazy you would think someone would notice!!! Wouldnt there be some kind of smell???

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Lol, and you can distinguish THAT from the other "normal" smells on an airplane?

Edited May 24, 2006 by xfirefighter484x

[grumpyff 1,159]

Not at first, there isn't much of a smell!!! It happens at least once or twice a year on the NYCTA subway system. usually an older person will pass away, and ride the train for several hours until someone, usually a cleaner or conductor, does notice.

Edited May 24, 2006 by grumpyff

[Guest bibbles10504]

Wow, that is a crazy story, But I guess it is possible