An airline traveler has spoken of his shock after cabin crew sat him next to the body of a fellow passenger who had died during the flight. The female passenger collapsed in the aisle beside Mitchell Ring and his partner Jennifer Colin during their Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha,

The couple shared how the cabin crew tried to keep the dead body next to a spare seat beside them after they failed to move the “large” body.

TMZ reports that Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were traveling to Venice, Italy from Melbourne, Australia via Doha, Qatar when a woman died mid-flight after collapsing into an a

Mitchell Ring and wife Jennifer Colin were seated next to the corpse while travelling en-route to Venice, despite other empty seats, they said.

A couple was “forced” to sit next to a dead body on a long-haul Qatar Airways flight.According to Sky News, a couple named travelling from Melbourne to Doha, en route to Italy, were forced to sit next to the dead body for about

An Australian couple on a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha were seated next to the body of a deceased passenger for four hours.

An Australian couple had to sit next to a deceased passenger on a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha. The crew could not move the body to bus

The passenger was on the Qatar Airways plane for Doha, Qatar, when she collapsed in the aisle, scenes described as "pretty heartbreaking to watch" by other shocked tourists

One of the passengers claims there were a few spare seats but that flight attendants didn't offer to move them.

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were initially pleased to find empty seats on their Qatar Airways flight. However, their relief quickly turned to horror when a woman collapsed shortly after leaving the bathroom.