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A pensioner attempting to push his dead wife onto a plane has sparked a security alert.
The person, in his 80s, was caught by security as he wheeled her ‘unresponsive’ body ‘as if she were just one other passenger’ through Tenerife South airport in Spain.
After getting through the primary security checks, he was only stopped when he got to the metal detector and staff noticed the girl was unconscious.
An airport worker told Spanish newspaper Diario de Avisos: ‘[A] security guard approached the girl, and the person gave her his wheelchair.
‘When she took the girl’s hand, she noticed she had an abnormally low temperature and wasn’t respiration.
‘The employee immediately notified her supervisor. Inside minutes, the emergency protocol was activated, and diverse security agents, Civil Guard officers, and forensic personnel arrived on the scene’.
The unknown husband reportedly told police that his wife had died just a number of hours before.
Employees claim that the elderly man tried in charge his wife’s death on the airport facilities.
The paper says the investigation stays open as officers determine whether there might be any criminal liability in her death.
The attempt got here after a passenger sitting next to an elderly British grandmother who passed away on an easyJet flight revealed his version of events.
Passengers had reported that an 89-year-old woman was ‘already’ dead before getting on the flight to London Gatwick.
Within the waiting area, she was seen ‘hunched over’ with others fearing the worst for her before embarking on the journey.
Tony Coatesworth, 71, a self-employed truck driver, was getting back from a work trip in Malaga and was sat on 25D, with only the aisle separating him and the elderly woman on 25C.
He told Metro: ‘All I saw was an elderly lady looking very poorly, she was accompanied by two people, a young lady and a person of about mid-fifties.
‘As we were heading to the runway, the young lady quietly told the person there could also be an issue.
‘He told the stewardess and she or he tried to wake the woman but she seemed unresponsive.
‘Earlier, I had seen her respiration.
He added: ‘They informed the captain and the choice was made to return to the parking place.’
‘The misinformation that she was brought onto the plane dead is totally unfaithful as I saw her respiration.
‘I agree she wasn’t looking great but she was respiration nevertheless.’
He said friends of the grandmother’s family had confirmed she was only flying so she could move to a care home closer to her family in England.
One in every of the opposite passengers Petra Boddington told The Sun: ‘People turned of their seats and went, ‘oh my god, she looks dead’.
EasyJet has said the claims she was dead before boarding are unfounded and explained that the girl had a fit-to-fly certificate.
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