Did I see a dead body being loaded into the cargo hold?
Feb 3, 2006, 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by GWU ESIA STUDENT
Apparently this is a huge money maker for Delta between FL and the Northeast. Does anyone know if this is true?
) like to retire to Florida. For fun find a Palm Beach or Ft. Lauderdale or similar yellow pages. Under Movers will be companies who only move from a small NE area "Central NJ" or so to that town. So many come from one area up North to one part of Fla that moving companies can make a living transiting Only between those two parts. After a few years two other ads tell the story. One is Estate Sales, to liquidate the stuff that the recently departed brought to Florida. The other is Funeral Homes, some which advertise in big letters "We Specialize in Returning your Ambient Temperature Yankee Relatives Back to Central NJ Where They Came From".
I assume most go by plane. Shipping departed retirees back out of Florida is Big Business.
Feb 3, 2006, 2:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
(too many for most of us natives )
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Feb 3, 2006, 3:51 pm
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Originally Posted by GWU ESIA STUDENT
Whats a native Floridian???
Up north of MCO are some real natives. Unlike you Yankees, when we travel we have the ability to find our way home again.
I am one of the few natives left. FWIW I am a fifth generation Floridian and happen to live about one mile from where great-great-grandad had his cabin in 1848. When you already live in Paradise, there is no place to move to, so here we stay. You think I'm going to pack up and move to Detroit? Did you just get of the plane from AMS?
I've seen a lot of folks come one way down I-75 and I-95. Guess I am one of the few who can still advocate the Great Florida Improvement Idea: Build a wall at the Georgia line and keep those "furriners" out.
OTOH, we kind of got used to how you tourists and retirees all help Keep Florida Green--come down here and leave all your money. ^ Don't worry, when you expire we'll mail you back to the Oranges or the Hamptons or wherever you came from.
Feb 3, 2006, 4:33 pm
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When my Dad died in late 2004, we had to arrange to have his casket shipped from Florida to DC, because he was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetary.
My brother learned that one of his employee benefits as an American Airlines pilot is free transport of the casket for an immediate family member; in fact there is a page in the employee handbook that addresses this benefit and how to fill out the appropriate paperwork.
Not your typical employee "perk"...
My brother learned that one of his employee benefits as an American Airlines pilot is free transport of the casket for an immediate family member; in fact there is a page in the employee handbook that addresses this benefit and how to fill out the appropriate paperwork.
Not your typical employee "perk"...
Feb 5, 2006, 5:48 am
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Originally Posted by ghurty
El Al airlines allows you to call up before flight time and ask if they are going to be carrying a casket on board a particular flight
Feb 6, 2006, 3:06 am
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Originally Posted by buzzer
Just as a historical note, embalming began as solution to the problem of transporting Union bodies back home by train during the Civil War.
It was the smell, don'tcha know.
It was the smell, don'tcha know.
P.S. Do not let young ones drill holes in the casket so that Grandma can breathe
Feb 6, 2006, 7:20 am
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Originally Posted by GWU ESIA STUDENT
Yes there is. High priests or Coheniem cannot go near dead bodies or they become unpure; this includes modern day cemeteries. The law is derived from the days of the Temple in Jerusalem. Generally speaking people with the last name of Cohen who are jewish are Coheniem and if they are observant they cannot go near a dead body; thus EL AL being willing to let anyone know.
No doubt when these rules became law back in the Old Days the concept of an aluminum tube at 39,000 feet at max ETOPS range were not taken into consideration.
Feb 6, 2006, 7:43 am
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Originally Posted by buzzer
Just as a historical note, embalming began as solution to the problem of transporting Union bodies back home by train during the Civil War.
It was the smell, don'tcha know.
It was the smell, don'tcha know.
Specifically, arterial embalming.
Feb 6, 2006, 8:38 am
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
What would such a person do halfway across the ocean, a couple hours from the nearest airport, if a fellow passenger died on the plane? Ask to be let off immediately? Is there an exception to the rule if they did not knowingly get on a plane with a body, but a body just kinda showed up?
No doubt when these rules became law back in the Old Days the concept of an aluminum tube at 39,000 feet at max ETOPS range were not taken into consideration.
No doubt when these rules became law back in the Old Days the concept of an aluminum tube at 39,000 feet at max ETOPS range were not taken into consideration.
Feb 6, 2006, 8:48 am
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Originally Posted by TA
I don't want to crap on anyone's religion, but this kind of thing is totally stupid. Creating problems out of nothing -- as if you would've been affected any worse if you flew without knowing that there was a body in cargo. Or them saying that "no" we don't carry bodies when they actually do. All of this just to change how someone *feels* about something!
Feb 6, 2006, 2:56 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
What would such a person do halfway across the ocean, a couple hours from the nearest airport, if a fellow passenger died on the plane? Ask to be let off immediately? Is there an exception to the rule if they did not knowingly get on a plane with a body, but a body just kinda showed up?
No doubt when these rules became law back in the Old Days the concept of an aluminum tube at 39,000 feet at max ETOPS range were not taken into consideration.
No doubt when these rules became law back in the Old Days the concept of an aluminum tube at 39,000 feet at max ETOPS range were not taken into consideration.
BTW I was born in CHS so does that make me ok or not?
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Feb 6, 2006, 10:52 pm
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Originally Posted by sundriedmilk
Are caskets opened and inspected, or x-rayed, before being allowing on the plane? Or is it like regular cargo?
-Spoiler Warning for those that didn't see the movie-
The scene where Yuri gets arrested because a bullet showed up on a xray of his dead brother's body as it was coming through customs.
Feb 7, 2006, 2:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
What would such a person do halfway across the ocean, a couple hours from the nearest airport, if a fellow passenger died on the plane? Ask to be let off immediately? Is there an exception to the rule if they did not knowingly get on a plane with a body, but a body just kinda showed up?