EasyJet Flight Halted As British Family ‘Try To Wheel Their Dead Grandmother On Board’

A British family reportedly wheeled their dead grandma onto an easyJet flight and pretended she was asleep, causing pandemonium and resulting in the flight being delayed by 12 hours.

As per Metro, the group of five relatives wheeled their 89-year-old nan onto the flight from Malaga in Spain to Gatwick Airport, with holidaymakers overhearing the family tell staff she was unwell and had fallen asleep.

Turns out she was actually dead, which prompted the pilot to turn the plane around on the runway once cabin crew worked it out.

EasyJet claim the woman had a fit-to-fly certificate and was alive before boarding the flight. Maybe she died in the lounge and the family thought ‘f— it, we’re going home anyway’?

Witnesses said a clerk asked about the woman’s health before the family tried to board, but they insisted she was ‘just tired’.

Passenger Petra Boddington explained: ‘EasyJet ground staff actually allowed someone who looked completely dead onto the plane and then, funnily enough, just as we were about to take off, they died.’

She added that easyJet would usually deny people from flying ‘if you were drunk, but apparently it’s okay if you’re dead or you look dead’.

Another passenger, Tracy-Anne Kitching, claimed that she saw the woman get ‘wheeled into the plane’ while someone held her head.

In a Facebook post, she wrote: ‘easyJet – you are unbelievable! Why did you let a dead person on our flight?’

The flight was set to leave Malaga at 11.15am on Friday and land at Gatwick at 1.10pm. It didn’t depart until 10.47pm local time, and landed at Gatwick at midnight. Nightmare.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Malaga confirmed officers were called onto the plane because of the elderly British woman.

They said: ‘She was pronounced dead on the aircraft which had been due to leave Malaga for London just after 11am yesterday morning.

‘She was permitted to fly because she had a medical ‘fit to fly’ certificate and was being supported by medical personnel during her journey.’

No word on what happened to the old lady and her family after her corpse was removed from the plane, but I guess you can’t blame them for not wanting the ticket to go to waste. Repatriation costs aren’t cheap, so I can understand it from that perspective at least.

Then again, who the hell takes their 89-year-old grandma on holiday with no travel insurance? Probably the same kind of people who would travel with someone nearing 90 on a plane during flu season, I suppose.

For the easyJet cabin manager who was sacked after his ‘sexual comedy routine’ went down like a lead balloon, click HERE.