The Mile High Dead Club

[cheesegrate]

Stewardesses have a thankless job. Dealing with rude and sometimes violent passengers. Then there's the turbulence. The long hours walking thousands of steps in the sky, pushing and pulling trolleys in a metal tube. Putting up with being objectified by leering passengers who rather fantasize having them instead of coffee or tea. And having to do it with a lipstick-perfected smile, looking crisp in a uniform while wearing heels, even if it's thirteen hours into a shift.

They can also add Death as another downside to the job. Statistics suggest being a flight attendant is a relatively dangerous occupation compared to many careers, having comparable injury and mortality rates to occupations like police officers and construction workers.

If you are one of those pervs that secretly wanks off to photos of pretty stewardesses all dolled up, do yourself a favor and picture one lying mangled on a morgue slab in a tattered and stained uniform, because it's happened before and bound to happen again. Sorry to shatter that fantasy of perfection.

This forum is dedicated to the many ways flight attendants have met their end on the job, or just going on- or off-duty - from terrorist killings to accidents to sudden death, in other words, those who have joined the Mile High Dead Club.

It will be periodically updated with new cases.

CASE 1 El Al stewardess gunned down in August 1978

Aftermath of the incident (photos taken during crime scene investigation).

The attack happened around 1:30 pm August 20, 1978 outside the Europa Hotel just as the bus taking the tired El Al crew to their hotel after their long trans-Atlantic flight.

Investigators in the area cordoned off by police tape behind the bus, where the body of the stewardess killed and sole civilian fatality in the attack is lying, having been pronounced dead at the scene. Her body will be taken later that night to the morgue. A postmortem exam was carried out two days later, prior to repatriating the stewardess's body.

CASE 1 continued...

Repatriation of the stewardess's body:

Honor guard of fellow stewardesses (note their orange uniform - the victim would have been wearing this style of uniform when she was killed):

 

[Bad Hippo]

Just one more reason to wipe the fucking Muslims off the face of the earth.

 

[Gamma🍄Goblin]

Yeah trolly dollys do get alot of grief . Not a job I would do.

 

[Bad Hippo]

Yeah trolly dollys do get alot of grief . Not a job I would do.

Is that because you'd look silly dressed as a flight attendant, or because you'd be "goblin'" up all the duty free booze?

 

[cheesegrate]

CASE 2: The Indian Pan Am Stewardess who made the ultimate sacrifice to save 3 children

This happened in 1986 to Pan Am World Airways Flight 73 which was on its way to New York when hijacked at a stopover at Jinnah in Pakistan, where a 17-hour long drama unfolded. To protect the Americans on board from the terrorists, Neerja Bhanot, an attractive 22 year-old Pan Am stewardess who had done jobs modeling in advertising before becoming a stewardess, collected the American passports to hide them and protect the identities of the American passengers. She also kept her cool, literally, while constantly being the one to answer to the hostage-takers' demands and relay instructions to passengers over the intercom, often at gunpoint, as the fuel eventually ran out and the power generators failed, plunging the cabin into darkness and stifling heat, the air conditioning having failed once the power went out. She also helped distribute refreshments to passengers, and even negotiated to allow them to use the restrooms (instead of going in their seats).

At the end of the 17-hour ordeal, once the shooting started, she opened the door to allow passengers out use the emergency slide, but turned back to help 3 children who were in harm's way. She shielded them with her own body as she was shot multiple times in the back, and was killed instantly (A passenger who witnessed the moment she was shot and saw her body later when it was brought to Mumbai, still in uniform, noted the body still looked "fresh and beautiful because all her wounds were on her back" (see below). An eponymous movie was made to commemorate her heroism in 2016, with the Indian actress Sonam Kapoor playing her.

Stills from the movie:

The real life Neerja Bhanot:

 

[cacarara74874]

If you are one of those pervs that secretly wanks off to photos of pretty stewardesses all dolled up, do yourself a favor and picture one lying mangled on a morgue slab in a tattered and stained uniform

Where are these morgue pictures?

 

[cheesegrate]

CASE 3. A case of sudden cardiac death.

This BA stewardess dropped dead suddenly in her hotel room after finishing her shift while on a lay over in Angola. Her cabin crewmates noticed she did not show up for dinner that night, and when she failed to report in the next morning for the return flight, her crewmates entered her hotel room with security where they discovered her lying on the floor dead, still fully clad in her uniform. The body was flown back to the UK for a postmortem and from her medical history it was discovered she had a congenital heart condition that likely caused a fatal arrhythmia.

CASE 4. Another case of unexplained sudden death just after landing.

This Albanian stewardess "fainted" on the tarmac after the passengers had deboarded the plane after landing in the UK on a continental flight from Tirana to Essex. Passerby and paramedics promptly started CPR after noting she was in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A postmortem examination revealed no obvious explanation for the young flight attendant's sudden death. The cause was listed as "sudden adult death syndrome" (i.e. the technical label for 'who the f*ck knows what happened'). She had been active on Instagram posting her jet setting ways, until she joined the Mile High Dead Club.

 

[cheesegrate]

Where are these morgue pictures?

Wow, talk about being direct, I like someone who knows what they want!...Sadly, morgue pics of stewardesses are few and far between (at least ones publicly available). Not that they don't exist - I've included one in the following case

CASE 5. Death in the jungle.

One-Two-Go Flight 269 crashed on September 16, 2007 after landing in the afternoon at Phuket, Thailand, a popular tropical tourist destination. There were thunderstorms in the area and the plane that landed immediately before the doomed flight reported strong wind shear. The pilots of flight 269 tried to abort the approach at the last moment for a go-around, but as the plane struggled to climb, it lost lift around 80 m above the ground and crashed just to the side of the runway on the embankment. The emergency vehicles couldn't get passed the ditch running parallel to the embankment and this significantly delayed the rescue.

Many of the passengers and some crew were able to escape and made their way on foot across the muddy field to safety, fearing an explosion. But the smoldering wreck didn't explode, perhaps due to the aircraft tanks being close to empty (it was at the end of the flight) and because of the moisture/rain. After the remaining survivors were saved, the efforts turned to recovery and forensic examination of the wreckage and bodies. The deceased were brought one by one to a makeshift morgue where bodies spent hours lying inside wet bodybags without refrigeration until they could undergo postmortem examination and identification while relatives waited for the painstaking process to be completed.

Of the 130 people on board, 85 passengers and five crew members (including three cabin crew) perished.

Makeshift morgue with plastic body bags containing Flight 269 aircrash victims

Deceased One-Two-Go stewardess at the morgue still in her bodybag, her uniform soiled and covered in mud

One-Two-Go stewardesses and how they look in their unspoiled uniforms

 

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CASE 6: Death in the Desert Heat - An account of a hijacking and 'whodunnit' killing of a stewardess

This next case involves the hijacking of a Russian airliner Thursday, March 15, 2001 by hijackers as an act to protest the Chechen War. The flight with 174 passengers and crew aboard was hijacked Thursday afternoon just 30 minutes after taking off from Istanbul, Turkey. The hijackers were armed with knives and safety axes (used to break windows on the aircraft in an emergency). The pilots barricaded themselves in the cockpit and the hijackers never got in, but the pilots nevertheless complied with the hijacker demands and flew the plane to Saudi Arabia where it landed in Medina.

Some women and young children were released from the plane when it landed, fortunately for them, because the airplane sat on the tarmac in the desert heat for the next 18 hours, the cabin conditions becoming stiflingly hot (there was no air conditioning with the engines off). Negotiations with the hijackers dragged on through the night, during which the crew in the cockpit somehow managed to escape. However, the flight attendants remained aboard the entire time working the longest shift of their lives, dutifully tending to the distressed passengers while at simultaneously keeping the hijackers placated (incidently one flight attendant - not depicted here - had been stabbed early on in the hijacking but ultimately survived).

By mid-morning Friday, one passenger spotted Saudi security forces outside the plane, and the commando gestured to him to keep quiet. Based on some eyewitness accounts, the 27-year old stewardess killed was also aware of the commandos and at the moment the assault began she swung open a cabin side door and deployed the ramp, presumably to help the commandos board the plane, only to be seized by the youngest hijacker and used as a human shield.

This is where things get fuzzy. Prelimary reports and eyewitness accounts suggested the young stewardess was stabbed in the neck and killed as the commandos stormed the plane. However, a postmortem examination of the stewardess's body at a forensic facility in Saudi Arabia after the siege was over showed instead that she was shot in the neck - likely by a Saudi commando - since none of the hijackers had firearms. Nevertheless, the Saudi police did not admit responsibility for the killing.

In total, three people were killed, one Turkish male passenger (also 27 years old), one hijacker and the female flight attendant in question.

(For those wanting morgue pics, you are in luck as this case is one of the rare ones where morgue pics were leaked...)

Shown below is the partially-clad body of the stewardess, still in her uniform skirt and nylons, lying on the floor of a Saudi morgue, looking worse-for-wear (not surprisingly) after the 22-hour ordeal. Note the fatal neck wound that was thought to be a stab wound, but on forensic examination was found to be a gunshot wound instead.

Some more photos of the hijacking:

 

[Localocaloca]

Wow I never heard of this before

 

[dwdays]

Them titties

 

[Chief Queef]

Not to worry. Most stewardess are now homosexual faggots who still do a decent enough job. I still prefer an actual woman to hand me my complimentary peanuts and soft drink...

 

[cheesegrate]

Haven't posted here in a while:

CASE 7: Aeroflot Stewardess Takes Bullet to Save Plane from Hijackers


This is the case of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a Soviet flight attendant whose bravery prevented the hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 244 in October 1970. Mid flight, the hijackers attempted to storm the cockpit and Kurchenko alerted the crew inside, allowing them to barricade the door. She bravely stood between the hijackers and the cockpit door, and when she refused to move out of the way, she was shot and killed. A postmortem examination revealed she had died from a single shot to the heart. She was not yet 20 years old. She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

 

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CASE 8: Of Love Triangles and Lavatories at 30,000 ft


In A Continental Airlines 707 disintegrated over the Missouri Iowa border in May 1962. Flight 11 took off from Chicago at 8:35 pm with a crew on their last domestic flight of their shift, bound to land at Kansas City about an hour later. But it never made it. Witnesses saw the plane come apart mid air around 9:17 pm just before starting its descent into Kansas City for landing. At 9:21 pm, the main fuselage ended up in a muddy farmer's field missing the tail and wings. The wreckage was located by locals at 2 AM the next morning. 37 passengers and eight crew died. Rescuers arrived around 5:15 AM. One person, a passenger by the name of Takehiko Nakano, a 27 year old engineer, was found alive in the wreckage but died an hour and a half later. A makeshift morgue was set up in an unused barn in Putnam County for initial processing of the bodies and to make identifications.

Investigation of the air disaster revealed that a small explosion had occurred in the rear lavatory. The person who had occupied the lavatory was a salesman by the name of Thomas Doty. He was traveling with business partner and mistress Geneva Fraley. His interestingly was the first body rescuers came across. His mangled body was found lying face up in grass, eyes wide open, naked except for an ID bracelet and socks.

The investigation eventually uncovered a love triangle between Doty, his business partner and his wife. Due to cratering finances he planned an elaborate suicide whereby he purchased dynamite and managed to smuggle it aboard the plane (that time, securtiy was way more lax). He took out an insurance policy with which he intended his wife to collect the proceeds after his death.

What blew the case wide open (no pun intended) was the special autopsy 23 year-old Joyce Rush, a pretty young stewardess who was standing outside the lavatory door when Doty denotated his explosives. Her body was found in the aft section that had separated from the rest of the fuselage where the rear lavatory was located. Unlike many of the passengers, her body was clothed and mostly intact, shielded in part by the lavatory door itself and the bulkheads in the aft section. But she was also very close to the source of the explosion, and the investigators realized that they could examine the body for trace evidence as her body/clothing would have absorbed small bits of shrapnel and debris from the exploded lavatory.

Her body was therefore marked for special examination and brought to a military medical facility in Texas, with investigators flying in from Washington for the postmortem. The external surfaces of her body and clothing were examined meticulously from head to toe during a multiple-hours-long autopsy. The prolonged autopsy proved fruitful, and amazingly, investigators retrieved a tiny fragment of wax paper from the packaging of the explosives embedded in her skin that allowed identification. From that, the investigators were able to trace the explosives back to the store from where it was purchased, which eventually led back to Doty, and the whole case unraveled.

 

[cheesegrate]

Some more cases looking at stewardess fatalities in the morgue:

CASE 9: Turbulence Kills

Braniff International Airways Flight 250 - crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, on August 6, 1966, en route to Omaha from Kansas City, Missouri. Thirty-eight passengers and four crew members (total 42) were killed in the crash, which ended up in a muddy farm field late on a Saturday night. There had been structural failure of the tail section of the twin-engined jet plane due to severe turbulence by the avoidably flying into a thunderstorm squall line.

The forensic details of this case are published in "Forensic Medicine: a study in trauma and environmental hazards" volume 2 1977, in the chapter examining air disasters. I added a photo of the pilot at autopsy for comparison, because it demonstrates how different the trauma is depending on where you are in the plane. The body of the stewardess seated near the tail is mostly intact except for some superficial smoke deposits. Her body was found fully clothed (the clothing was removed at autopsy - you can see the imprint of her clothing especially clear are the stocking garters). On the other hand, the pilot's body was found with his clothing mostly shorn off and with severe perineal trauma (area of the groin and anus).

Stewardess's body at autopsy:

Pilot's body at autopsy:

CASE 10: Not a Good Day for a Swim

Nippon Airways Flight 60 was a Boeing 727-81 making a flight on Feb 4, 1966, from Sapporo Chitose Airport to Tokyo Haneda International Airport in Japan. All 133 people on board died when the plane mysteriously crashed into Tokyo Bay about 10.4 km from Haneda in clear weather conditions while on a night approach. The plane hit the water nose high in almost a horizontal position, as if landing. The cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error using the instrument landing system (ILS). They basically landed in Tokyo Bay instead of the runway.

The photos below are also taken from a forensic atlas ("Atlas of Legal Medicine" by Tomio Watanabe 1968) depicted one of the stewardesses aboard Flight 60 in the autopsy room, her skin showing "external print marginal hemorrhage" basically small breaks in the superficial capilleries caused by wearing tight-fitting uniform clothing and from the fishing net used by fishermen to fish the body out of the waters of the bay.

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

Friendly tip - Icelandair stewardesses were all blonde baddies. Even the lads were good looking fellas. Definitely worth a few leering daydreams about while sitting on their plane for 5+hrs

 

[Guipago]

Is that because you'd look silly dressed as a flight attendant, or because you'd be "goblin'" up all the duty free booze?

I bet it's the hairy legs.

 

[j.f.🔎]

If you are one of those pervs that secretly wanks off to photos of pretty stewardesses

Dude, if you were trying to portray yourself as something other than this, I can only assume you want us to assume you wank over the dead ones.

 

[TheFallOfTroyML]

that thread is interesting, but kinda ... fishy

 

[Imi]

Just one more reason to wipe the fucking Muslims off the face of the earth.

Oh my dear, you won't even live to be 34 years old if it were up to the Jews.