After we took off and were in the air, passengers started spreading out into the vacant seats around the plane so they could stretch out. I of course seemed to have a whole row on the other side of the isle and decided it was my opportunity to really stretch out on this 8+ hour flight. I proceeded to make myself at home when the stewardess came back and told me that I couldn't have those seats and that they were for the plane personnel to relax during their breaks during the flight. I proceeded back to my origional seat.
I guess I was really tired and I feel asleep several hours into the flight. We were about two hours away from Tahiti when the stewardesses started coming around and offering us drinks, of course waking me up. I looked across the isle and saw an elderly lady stretched out in the seats across the isle. The same seats I had been told were saved for the stewardesses. The gal was apparently sleeping, she look to comfortable with a blanket up to her chest.
The stewardess came by with our drinks, made a comment "I am sorry about the inconvience" as she handed me my drink. I guess I was still in a daze because her statement made absolutely no sense to me. Inconvience for what? That the other lady got to stretch out and I didn't? I looked over again across the isle and the gal still was asleep.
The pilot made the announcement, "please fasten your seatbelts and prepare for landing". I noticed the woman hadn't got up and started to flag down the stewardess to wake the gal up and have her put on her seatbelt. Thats when my fiance stopped me. He replied, "there's nothing on this earth that will wake that lady up". I must really have been out of it, his statement flew right over my head. He then said to me "I don't think they are really worried about her hurting herself". Again, the statement went right over my head.
He says to me this time(holding my hand), "Honey...the woman is like dead. She apparently had a heart attack earlier on the plane. While you were sleeping, they brought her back and laid her down. I knew in seconds that this woman was dead. You were asleep, I didn't want you to over react and I certainly wasn't going to tell you anything if I didn't have you." My head immediately turned sharply in her direction, I could have easily given myself whiplash I turned it so hard. My mouth dropped, I felt myself give a really big swallow.
The plane landed, the announcement came over the PA, "ladies and gentlemen, at this time we must all depart the plane. I know some of you will be continuing on to Sidney, Australia but due French regulations, they must come onto the plane and remove the body. You must depart the plane and either check into customs or to your designated waiting area. Again we are sorry for any inconvience this might have caused you."
We all got off the plane, some of us noticing the coroners truck on the runway, gossip started spreading around the holding bay for and immegration. We went through customs and got into a cab and headed for our overnight stay at a local hotel til we could embark on our cruise the next day.
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