How do airlines transport a deceased body?

Question

I spent a many hours at the airport watching the workers load and unload baggage and have never seen what looks to be a "coffin" type cargo.I know that the funeral home makes arrangements for this type of thing.

Answer 1

From what I understand they put it under the cabin with the luggage.  I heard on average 1 out of every 5 commercial flights with be transporting a body so you have probably seen one. I am sure they don't pack it in a way that its obvious what it is but they are out there.

Answer 2

Strap it to the spoiler, so they have more drag to stop on short runways.

Answer 3

They have to go somewhere on the plane. Probably next to someones yapping dog-lol.

Answer 4

In the meal trollys.

Answer 5

I asked a similar question a while back; hope this helps ;)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

-Jim Wilson

LOLL j/k, -Josh

Answer 6

with the luggage

Answer 7

Hopefully with as much respect and sensitivity as possible. I cannot speak for passenger aircraft on this matter, however as a cargo pilot I am often called upon to transport the remains of people who are to be interred in their home country or state, usually at the request of their families.Or in accordance with their will.

Personally I will always do everything possible to separate the deceased from all other cargo. Per regulations caskets are almost always transported inside a plain brown box.

Answer 8

doesnt it just go in with all the other luggage?

Answer 9

fathers a mortician, they put it in a box (just looks like a rectangle box and they fly it with the luggage)

Answer 10

It happens, and the shipping container looks mostly like a casket.  If you're looking at big planes, the container may be in a canisterised shipping container, and someone looking out the concourse windows will never see it.  On small planes, it's obvious.

Answer 11

Coffins are loaded in the cargo hold in the belly of the aircraft.

All of the ones I have noticed are  enclosed in a large rectangular cardboard box - making it difficult to for a casual observer to immediately ascertain that it contains a coffin.