Qatar Airways apologised for ‘any inconvenience or distress’ after a woman died about 10 hours into a flight from Melbourne to Doha.

Qatar Airways is now responding after passengers claim they were forced to sit next to a dead body for four hours on flight from Melbourne, Australia to Doha, Qatar.

Qatar Airways said its crew handled the body of a woman who died during a flight from Melbourne to Doha in a professional manner, after a couple said they were forced to sit next to the body. The passenger collapsed in the aisle next to Australian passengers Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin's row after going to the toilet,

The passengers previously spoke out after being told they couldn't move seats and instead had to sit next to a deceased fellow passenger on their flight