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In reply to the discussion: Sickly, obese Bronx woman dies in Hungary after airlines say she's too fat to fly [View all]sammytko
(2,480 posts)13. That was the first time. That is when they couldn't find the extender and the seat was not going to
support her weight anyway.
In the other attempts they couldn't even get her inside the plane.
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Sickly, obese Bronx woman dies in Hungary after airlines say she's too fat to fly [View all]
whopis01
Nov 2012
OP
She had bought 2 seats for herself and yet they claimed the seat couldn't handle her weight.
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#2
That was the first time. That is when they couldn't find the extender and the seat was not going to
sammytko
Nov 2012
#13
after looking at her pic in post 22, I think they didn't want to take the chance of an inflight
sammytko
Nov 2012
#27
She only has one leg, so it sounds like she can't walk and needs a wheelchair.
yardwork
Nov 2012
#17
After reading the article, how sad for all involved. And I don't understand why
uppityperson
Nov 2012
#6
She might have even been to weak to be able to even help herself onto the plane
sammytko
Nov 2012
#14
I fucking love it! No evidence. No nothing! But after 33 years of marriage, you're "suspicious" ...
11 Bravo
Nov 2012
#33
Thanks, Dude! I've only been here for 10 years. I appreciate you taking the time to explain ...
11 Bravo
Nov 2012
#41
The only way someone gets that fat is if someone else gets the food and prepares it for them
FarCenter
Nov 2012
#57
Not necessarily from food. If she wasn't going to dialysis, fluids would have built up
sammytko
Nov 2012
#60
OK, that was my first thought. Who in their right mind goes to a foreign country for 2 months
Fla Dem
Nov 2012
#61
An all around tragedy, but I'll say this, no family member of mine that sick would fly without an
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#42
Yes, I do not understand this. Why was someone in that condition making a long transatlantic flight?
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#53
Thats just it. It seems to me they barely could deal with the flight over, then she got worse.
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#58
Sounds like it was dangerous for a woman in her poor medical health to travel into another
LisaL
Nov 2012
#62
Many overseas medical facilities require several thousand $ be put on a credit card before treatment
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#64