An airline traveler has spoken of his shock after cabin staff sat him next to the body of a fellow passenger who had died during the flight.

The couple shared how the cabin crew tried to keep the dead body next to a spare seat beside them after they failed to move the “large” body.

TMZ reports that Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were traveling to Venice, Italy from Melbourne, Australia via Doha, Qatar when a woman died mid-flight after collapsing into an a