Wife’s shock as husband dies on flight

A WOMAN yesterday spoke of her anguish after her husband died while sitting next to her on a holiday flight.

Marlene Scott thought husband Graeme was sleeping as they came into land in Dubai, where they were to change planes on a trip to Thailiand.

Mrs Scott got up from her business class seat to freshen up ten minutes before arrival – but could not rouse her husband when she returned to her chair.

Mr Scott, 62, a father of three, was described by his wife as the hardest working, most caring man she had ever known. She said: ‘I was left in shock when I discovered he had passed away right next to me.

‘Ten minutes before landing I got up out of my chair and saw him with his eyes closed. I just thought he was sleeping.

‘I spoke to him, then tried to prod him awake but when I felt him he was ice cold.’

After the plane landed Mrs Scott, who ran The Limes Guest House in Montrose, Angus, with her husband, watched as medical crews were called to help her husband, but it was too late to save him.

She then had to wait from 10am on Tuesday, December 23 until 4am the next day before she was allowed to go home.

Mr Scott’s body remains in Dubai as police carry out an investigation into the sudden death.

Mrs Scott said: ‘I am devastated he is gone but over 41 years of marriage we experienced so much together and that I am truly thankful for.’