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.

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.

Qatar Airways says an internal review has found that its crew "acted quickly, appropriately and professionally" when they placed the body of a woman who died mid-flight next to an Australian couple. The airline issued the statement to the BBC on Friday,