Moment couple forced to sit next to CORPSE for hours choke back tears after passenger’s sudden death on long-haul flight

THIS is the moment a couple were left in tears after they were forced to sit next to a dead woman for hours during a long-haul flight.

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were travelling to Venice via Doha when a fellow passenger collapsed mid-air on their Qatar Airways flight.

Despite the cabin crew's desperate efforts, the woman could not be saved.

Covered in a blanket, her body was then put on the vacant seat next to Mr Ring and Ms Collin.

The couple were even asked to move over to make room for it.

For more than four hours, the pair were forced to sit next to the corpse - and the experience left them traumatised.

A tearful Ms Colin told A Current Affair: "My husband turned around and asked me to move to make space. I was pretty shocked and I said, 'Are they going to put her there?'"

Mr Ring added: "They went to try and move her, they brought this chair down... and they put her in it 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."

"Unfortunately, the lady couldn't be saved, which was pretty heartbreaking to watch."

The Aussie couple said they were not taken care of by the crew, claiming they failed to relocate them away from the body.

They were even forced to stay on board when medical officers began examining the dead woman when the flight landed in Doha.

Mr Ring says one of the officers uncovered the woman's face in front of her wife.

He added that no one from the airline contacted them after the ordeal.

"I can't believe they told us to stay... it wasn't nice," Mr Ring said.

"They have a duty of care towards their customers as well as their staff, we should be contacted to make sure, do you need some support, do you need some counselling?

"I don't really know how I feel and would like to speak to somebody to make sure I'm alright."

The Aussie couple, who have since arrived in Venice for their dream holiday, say it was a hard situation.

Ms Colin said: "I'm trying to make the best of a pretty hard situation, but, you know, we're on holiday so we're really trying to have a good time."

Qatar Airways has indicated it is looking into the incident, Daily Mail reports.

The couple booked the flight tickets through Qantas - the flagship carrier of Australia.

A spokesperson for Qantas said: "Ms Colin booked tickets through Qantas and travelled with Qatar Airways, a fellow Oneworld Alliance carrier.

"The process for handling incidents onboard an aircraft like this is managed by the operating airline, which in this case is Qatar Airways."

A spokesperson for Qatar Airways said in a statement: "First and foremost our thoughts are with the family of the passenger who sadly passed away on board our flight.

"We apologise for any inconvenience or distress this incident may have caused, and are in the process of contacting passengers in line with our policies and procedures."

The Sun has reached out to Qatar Airways for comment.

It comes after a JET2 plane was forced to make an emergency landing after a holidaymaker died onboard.

The aircraft, flying from Tenerife to the UK, was forced to divert to the Spanish mainland on Friday evening after a passenger suffered a fatal medical emergency.

The nationality of the passenger isn't known, but he was reported to be in his 70s.

Meanwhile, another passenger tragically died onboard an Air France flight while returning from a trip to Paris.

A doctor on the flight reportedly tried to save the passenger's life after they suffered a medical emergency while returning to Boston.