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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My heart goes out to the woman and her family, but honestly, if someone is that large and heavy that multiple flight attendants can’t move her when she literally dies on the flight then they wouldn’t be able to move her either if there was an emergency where all the passengers needed to disembark quickly. This is a major safety issue. People so big and heavy should not be allowed to fly on regular planes. It’s is a hazard to everyone else. If there is enough demand (sadly they probably is) then they can make special planes with wider seats, wider aisles, and perhaps special equipment to help move passengers if need be.[/quote]

I saw this as a woman who is 4.11 and not overweight at all. Maybe they just need to make ALL airplanes big enough to accommodate all of their passengers. [/quote]

That's not true according to this direct quote from one of the people who had to sit next to her body:

[quote]"[It] was pretty heartbreaking to watch,” Ring said on A Current Affair. “They went to try and move her, they brought this chair down ... and tried to wheel her up towards business class, but she was quite a large lady and they couldn't get her through the aisle.”[/quote]   https://people.com/couple-were-made-beside-corpse-plane-after-woman-dies-midway-through-flight-11685853

Every other article I've seen has repeated that she was obese and hard to move. [/quote]

It’s a typo (saw should be say in the first sentence). PP is saying they themselves are 4’11” and not overweight, then giving their opinion.[/quote]

Nothing is free. If they make the seats and aisles bigger to accommodate the few bigger passengers who can’t fit safely into seats and down the aisles in an emergency then that would mean fewer seats total on the plane, which means the airline would increase prices significantly for each of those seats. I know that DC is full of wealthy people who think this is fine, but the rest of the country already struggles to afford flight tickets and couldn’t easily afford to pay significantly more the way that you guys can.[/quote]

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