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Young man chokes to death on in-flight meal & his girlfriend sits next to his corpse
A young woman sat next to the body of her boyfriend for nine hours after he choked to death while eating an in-flight meal.
Girlfriend Vanessa Preechakul told today how she watched in horror as 31-year-old Robert Rippingale choked and died while eating a beef meal on a Jetstar flight between Singapore and Auckland.
'One minute we were sitting next to each other kissing, holding hands and the next minute he was choking,' Miss Preechakul, a 27-year-old architect said.
'I kept thinking "How could you do this to me?"
'He wanted to come back (to New Zealand) so much and he just left me there.'
Miss Preechakukl told the New Zealand Herald that she and Mr Rippingale had met in Singapore, where he had lived and worked for three years.
He was taking her to New Zealand so she could discover the country and share in his parents' 50th birthdays.
'He was so excited about the trip that we arrived at the airport six hours early for the 8pm flight,' she said.
An hour and a half into the scheduled 11-hour Jetstar flight - the airline is a low-budget subsidiary of Qantas - the crew began serving a choice of beef or chicken for dinner.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033546/Man-chokes-death-flight-meal.html
A young woman sat next to the body of her boyfriend for nine hours after he choked to death while eating an in-flight meal.
Girlfriend Vanessa Preechakul told today how she watched in horror as 31-year-old Robert Rippingale choked and died while eating a beef meal on a Jetstar flight between Singapore and Auckland.
'One minute we were sitting next to each other kissing, holding hands and the next minute he was choking,' Miss Preechakul, a 27-year-old architect said.
'I kept thinking "How could you do this to me?"
'He wanted to come back (to New Zealand) so much and he just left me there.'
Miss Preechakukl told the New Zealand Herald that she and Mr Rippingale had met in Singapore, where he had lived and worked for three years.
He was taking her to New Zealand so she could discover the country and share in his parents' 50th birthdays.
'He was so excited about the trip that we arrived at the airport six hours early for the 8pm flight,' she said.
An hour and a half into the scheduled 11-hour Jetstar flight - the airline is a low-budget subsidiary of Qantas - the crew began serving a choice of beef or chicken for dinner.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033546/Man-chokes-death-flight-meal.html
