Woman's identity confirmed after tragic death on Qatar Airways flight
Sharon Gordon has been identified as the woman who died on board a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Sydney over the weekend.
The 60-year-old was a customer service station attendant at Wynyard Station, and was on a solo flight home after visiting her daughter in London.
Halfway into the 14-hour flight, Gordon had reportedly started gasping and was found unresponsive.
Another passenger, her husband and baby were seated a row in front of Gordon, when they heard her making a "weird noise".
The female passenger was woken by the noise and had to look around in the dark to figure out what was going on.
“She looked like she was sleeping, but she was making this really loud noise,” she told 7News.
She claimed that a stewardess checked on Gordon, before two more joined her and brought oxygen.
“But then they just left,” the female passenger added.
The couple claimed that they were told by staff that “everything was all right," but “you could see she wasn’t breathing."
Around 20 minutes later, four different stewards arrived and lifted Gordon off her seat before giving her CPR and starting a defibrillator.
“I turned around and looked at the lady and she was very pale and her lips were white,” the female passenger added.
“At that point, my husband and I thought that she was dead.”
She described Gordon as "limp" and asked “why didn’t they do that a half hour earlier?”
An hour after Gordon's first gasps, they made an announcement asking if there were any doctor's or nurses on board.
Now, Gordon's family are desperate for answers, with 7News reporting that her family have requested help from the federal government after the airline said they did everything they could.
“I love her and will miss her so much,” Gordon's partner Rob Bray told the publication.
“Mother to Cameron and Ashley. She will be so sorely missed by us all.
“Her workmates at Wynyard Station are devastated.”
A Qatar Airways spokesperson previously told the publication: “Regrettably, the lady could not be revived.”
“Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.”
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