Supposing you board a plane more than a couple of times a year — chances are good you’ve flown the friendly skies with a dead body for company.
With the spooky scenario making headlines more than once already in 2025 — most recently after a couple flying on Qatar Airways wound up sharing their row with a blanket-draped corpse for hours — passengers can’t help but wonder if they’re the next to find themselves uncomfortably close to an abnormally quiet seatmate.
And while it’s not unusual for people to reach their final destination before the plane lands, experts say that out of the 50,000 bodies said to be transported by airplanes per year, most are riding snugly and securely in the cargo hold.
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