Originally Posted by
onlyairfare
I can imagine there are many challenges and lots of paperwork regarding a passenger who dies enroute, especially in foreign airspace with the body being unloaded in a different country.
The FA on NZ that I spoke with about this indicated that the paperwork took between 2 and 3 hours to complete. In addition the crew could not go off duty until it was completed at the destination airport. She just said it was a bureaucratic nightmare.