re: #109 Alouette

If you Google “airline horror stories” you will find a whole bunch of stuff like this.

Back in 1989, the old lady sitting next to me on a Dallas-Lubbock flight managed to woof down 3 mixed drinks in a matter of minutes (the flight itself was only 45 minutes long). She chatted more or less coherently for a minute, then yawned and went quietly to sleep.
I realized that something was wrong and called the flight attendant, who tried to rouse the old lady, then felt for her pulse. After that, the flight attendant fetched the first officer and a doctor who happened to be among the passengers. None of it helped: the old lady was dead as a door-knob. I stayed at the airport for a couple of hours giving statements to the FAA and the coroner. The ruling was cardiac arrest, probably after she lost consciousness.