Stunned passengers forced to sit next to dead passenger on flight

STUNNED passengers were forced to sit next to the body of a woman who died on a flight after she packed her medication into her checked-in luggage.

A passenger died on a flight reportedly after having packed her insulin in her checked-in luggage. Picture: CEN/australscope

SHOCKING photos show a dead woman being laid out on the aisle of a busy plane packed with tourists flying home from Turkey.

She is said to have died just 45 minutes into the three and a half-hour flight from the resort of Antalya to Moscow, Russia, The Sun reported.

The diabetic 50-year-old had left her insulin in her hold luggage and her condition deteriorated soon into the journey.

Cabin crew on the aboard the Azur Air flight were unable to resuscitate her as panicked passengers looked on in horror.

Passengers took photos of the woman’s body on the floor of the cabin after she died mid-flight. Picture: CEN/australscope

Her husband told Russian press she had taken a shot of insulin just an hour before boarding the Boeing 757 so she felt she didn’t need to carry it with her during the flight.

Attendants had no choice but to lay the victim in the aisle for the rest of the journey, covering her with a blanket.

Larger planes are usually equipped with a closed area unofficially known as a “corpse cupboard” to store the bodies of passengers who die suddenly in midair.

Budget airlines operating smaller planes normally have procedures to put a body on an empty row of seats.

But if a flight is fully booked they are forced to leave the body on the aisle.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.