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One of the passengers sitting next to the elderly British grandmother who passed away on an easyJet flight has revealed his version of events.<\/p>\n
Passengers had reported\u00a0that the 89-year-old woman was \u2018already\u2019 dead before getting on the flight to London Gatwick on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n In the waiting area, she was seen \u2018hunched over\u2019 with others fearing she was already dead before embarking on the journey.<\/p>\n Tony Coatesworth, a self-employed truck driver, was returning from a\u00a0work<\/a>\u00a0trip in\u00a0Malaga<\/a>\u00a0and was sat on 25D, with only the aisle separating him and the elderly woman on 25C.<\/p>\n The 71-year-old told\u00a0Metro<\/strong>: \u2018All I saw was an elderly lady looking very poorly, she was accompanied by two people, a young lady and a man of about mid-fifties.<\/p>\n \u2018As we were heading to the runway, the young lady quietly told the man there may be a problem.<\/p>\n \u2018He told the stewardess and she tried to wake the lady but she seemed unresponsive.<\/p>\n \u2018Earlier, I had seen her breathing.<\/p>\n \u2018They informed the captain and the decision was made to return to the parking place.<\/p>\n \u2018They lifted the lady from her seat and laid her down at the rear of the plane where the staff normally sit.\u2019<\/p>\n He added: \u2018The doctor and assistants came on board and we were all told to disembark from the plane.<\/p>\n \u2018The easyJet staff were totally professional and couldn\u2019t have done anymore.<\/p>\n \u2018The misinformation that she was brought onto the plane dead is completely untrue as I saw her breathing.<\/p>\n \u2018I agree she wasn\u2019t looking great but she was breathing nevertheless.<\/p>\n \u2018The assumptions made and exaggerated by some people on the plane and the media has been a total fabrication of what happened. Other people on the plane certainly have made a very big joke out of it.<\/p>\n \u2018Her family must be absolutely devastated with the unbelievable actions of some people and certainly the media.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Friends told me that all of her family are devastated by her death and the subsequent actions and comments made by people on\u00a0social media<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n One of the other passengers Petra Boddington, a wellbeing expert, told The Sun: \u2018People turned in their seats and went, \u2018oh my god, she looks dead\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018She was a fragile, old lady who was curled up and doubled over in a chair in a not very comfortable position.<\/p>\n \u2018Anybody with eyes could see that she was not fit to fly and it wasn\u2019t just me that thought it, it was everybody else that she went past.<\/p>\n \u2018People sat in front of me even said they\u2019d seen the people that were with her holding her head up.<\/p>\n \u2018We all thought that she looked dead.\u2019<\/p>\n EasyJet has said the claims are unfounded and explained that the woman had a fit-to-fly certificate and was alive before boarding the flight.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SEI278479981-1-8895-e1766442731388.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=474\")
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