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Family caught bringing their 'dead gran' onto easyJet flight home
(www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
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I learned somewhere that this happens relatively frequently, because transporting a dead person the "correct" way is ridiculously expensive
It is absolutely a robbery.
First EasyJet flight where one of the passengers wasn't uncomfortable?
So, once again, nothing beats a Jet 2 holiday. Sorry. I'm going to hell.
That's crazy
Why do they gotta turn the plane around?
Like, okay, I kinda get being skeeved out sitting next to a dead person on a plane. But it's not like turning the plane around is gonna get them better. Kinda past that point now.
It can be dealt with on the ground at the destination just the same as it can be dealt with on the ground at the origin...so why go disrupting everybody's plans over one dead grandma. Most of us have at least one dead grandma already. I know my dead grandma wouldn't want to make a fuss and would just want to keep her head down and quietly ride the plane. If you put a rosary in her hand, you'd never even know.
The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac
Makes sense to me they didnt take off with a corpse smuggled onboard.
Why do they gotta turn the plane around?
FTA:
However, moments before departure, the flight's crew discovered that the woman had died. The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac, with the journey from Spain to Gatwick eventually postponed by 12 hours. Travellers claimed the dead woman had been taken to towards the rear of the aircraft in a wheelchair before she was hoisted into her seat with assistance from five family members.
so. first off, the plane had never taken off by the time they had found her dead.
Even then, the flight was from Spain to the UK, so jurisdiction matters. if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory. And if she died before they boarded... well... that's probably something they want to look into.
if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory.
It also makes the headline kind of bullshit.
passengers are saying otherwise.
I don't know which side is telling the truth. I mean, of course Easyjet doesn't want to admit to having had a corpse wheeled onto their plane. But I'm kinda skeptical, too.
It’s other passengers alleging she was actually already dead
If my grandma were still alive to read this story, she'd say "If you ever do this, at least make it funny! Put me in a funny hat. Big sun glasses. Lets do it weekend at bernies style! Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I'm done living my life, one last time!"
Reverse weekend at bernies-ing?
Weekend at Benidorm