Cabin crew allegedly waited 20 minutes before they attempted to perform CPR on a woman who later died on board a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney last week.
The 60-year-old, believed to be from Campbelltown in Sydney’s south-west, was travelling on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha when she was found in an unresponsive state during the 14-hour journey.
Passengers Francesca and her husband Enrico, who would only provide their first names for privacy reasons, revealed that after she had died, flight crew ‘just left her there’ with a blanket covering her.
The airline previously said the passenger ‘could not be revived’ but Francesca and Enrico who were sat in front of the woman revealed ‘it didn’t feel like they (cabin crew) did enough’.
A 60-year-old woman, believed to be from Campbelltown in Sydney’s south west, was travelling on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha when she was found in an unresponsive state. She later died (stock image)
The 60-year-old, believed to be from Campbelltown in Sydney’s south-west, was travelling on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha when she was found in an unresponsive state during the 14-hour journey (stock image)
The couple first alerted airline air stewards after hearing the woman make a ‘weird noise’.
‘She looked like she was sleeping, but she was making this really loud noise,’ Francesca said.
Staff tried to wake the woman up and called for other crew members who brought an oxygen mask.
‘But then they just left,’ Francesca claimed.
The couple say they were told by staff that ‘everything was alright’.
‘You could see she wasn’t breathing,’ Francesca said.
Then, Francesca claimed, another 20 minutes passed before a member of the cabin crew returned with another passenger to attempt to move the ‘limp’ woman from her seat.
They moved her to another section of the plane, where they allegedly performed CPR and used a defibrillator.
‘I think at that point she was gone,’ Francesca said.
Another passenger has criticised the response of the cabin crew, claiming: ‘They just left her there’
‘Why didn’t they do that a half hour earlier?’
An announcement over the public address system then asked if there were any doctors on board.
Another half hour passed before the passengers behind Francesca and her husband were moved and the woman’s corpse was moved back to the row of seats and covered with a blanket.
When the plane landed everyone was told to remain seated while emergency crews tended to the dead woman.
Francesca said the airline should have handled the situation better.
‘They just left her there,’ she said.
Daily Mail Australia has approached Qatar Airways for comment.
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