An airline traveler has spoken of his shock after cabin staff sat him next to the body of a fellow passenger who had died during the flight.

Mitchell Ring and wife Jennifer Colin were seated next to the corpse while travelling en-route to Venice, despite other empty seats, they said.

TMZ reports that Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were traveling to Venice, Italy from Melbourne, Australia via Doha, Qatar when a woman died mid-flight after collapsing into an a