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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Benjamin Lynch

Passengers on BA Heathrow flight spend 13 hours with dead body on board

Flight BA32 was travelling from Hong Kong to Heathrow - (Steve Parsons/PA)

Passengers on a long-haul flight complained about a “foul smell” after a body was left next to a heated galley.

British Airways flight BA32 was travelling from Hong Kong to Heathrow when a woman in her 60s suddenly passed away around one hour after takeoff. The situation was reportedly not deemed an emergency by pilots, who decided to press on towards Heathrow.

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