{"id":401185,"date":"2026-04-07T22:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/british-airways-flew-13-hours-after-passenger-died-onboard-foul-smell-complaints-followed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:28:17","slug":"british-airways-flew-13-hours-after-passenger-died-onboard-foul-smell-complaints-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=401185","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Flew 13 Hours After Passenger Died Onboard &#8211; Foul Smell Complaints Followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might expect that, when a passenger passes away during a flight, pilots would divert the aircraft to an airport to deal with the situation. However, this isn\u2019t always the case. Indeed, if a passenger dies of natural causes, airlines may just opt to have the flight continue onward to its destination. This appears to be what happened with a recent British Airways flight from Hong Kong to London Heathrow. The passenger died shortly after takeoff, but the flight continued onward to its destination, flying for 13 and a half more hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    You might expect that, when a passenger passes away during a flight, pilots would divert the aircraft to an airport to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,396,476,1513,1745,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350-1000","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-hong-kong-international-airport","category-london-heathrow-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401187,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401185\/revisions\/401187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}