An American passenger allegedly bit a flight attendant on a flight leaving Japan on Tuesday (16). The All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane was headed to Seattle, but had to return to Tokyo, a spokesperson for the airline said. airline.
Flight ANA 118 departed Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 9:47 pm local time. The information is from the flight tracking website Flightradar24.
An ANA spokesperson told CNN that the passenger was detained by police after the plane landed in the Japanese capital. He was not identified.
The flight attendant suffered minor injuries, the spokesperson said.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department declined to provide further details about the case.
This is not the first case of a bite on flights. In 2022, two passengers received fines for attacking and biting crew and other passengers on separate flights with American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.
They were fined around US$81,000 and around US$77,000, respectively – the two largest penalties ever levied by the Federal Aviation Administration against individual passengers for actions on aircraft.
Several incidents have been reported this month of passenger misbehavior and aggression — including an American Airlines flight that was diverted to a Texas airport on Jan. 3 after a passenger allegedly punched a flight attendant and assaulted at least one police officer.
Source: CNN Brasil
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