Qatar Airways is defending the actions of its crew after two passengers complained when they were forced to sit next to another passenger’s dead body for four hours on their flight from Melbourne to Doha,

An Australian couple's story went viral this week after they said crew members placed a dead body in the seats next to them.

Husband and wife Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin claim they were forced to sit next to a deceased body for four hours while traveling from Melbourne to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight. According to the Australian news program A Current Affair,