Indignant passenger ‘bites flight attendent’ forcing flight into emergency landing | News World

A plane was forced to land on a distant pacific island after a drunken manthreatened cabin crew onboard.

The offended passenger allegedly bit a flight attendant on a Qantas Airways flight between Melbourne and Dallas.

The route is one in every of the world’s longest scheduled services, at 15 hours flying time.

Nevertheless the journey was much more prolonged tha usual on Friday, after the aircraft was forced to divert to Papeete in Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia.

Footage of the incident was uploaded by Australian comedian Mike Goldstein, who was travelling on the flight.

It showed the troublemaker wearing a green shirt, confronting cabin crew near a bathroom.

The offended passenger was heard shouting ‘F*** you’ after they refused his demands to permit him to walk out ‘for a ciggie’.

He was warned by the staff he can be restrained for the entire journey if he refused to behave.

The person was told by a male flight attendant: ‘You’re carrying on like a bloody two-bob watch.’

A ‘two-bob watch’ is an Australian slang term for something low-cost and unreliable.

Nevertheless the clip didn’t show the alleged biting.

In a response to comments, Mr Goldstein added that the person became involved in brawl with a fellow traveller sitting in front of him after they reclined their seat.

He wrote: ‘What I didn’t get video of was the person putting their seat back in front of him and him putting them in a chokehold. It woke him up and the rampage began.’

Anti-social behaviour onboard flights has change into an increasing headache for airlines, which face huge costs if their planes are diverted off track including extra fuel and compensating delayed passengers.

With alcohol a key consider incidents, passengers are strictly prohibited from consuming their very own booze on flights.

Nevertheless, tipple is widely available in airports including at bars and executive lounges, which aren’t required to evolve to usual restrictions on opening hours which apply to their high street counterparts.

Drunken behaviour on board planes is a criminal offence within the UK, carrying a maximum penalty of £5,000 and two years’ imprisonment.

Earlier this month, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary called for airports to be banned from serving alcohol to passengers before early morning flights.

His intervention was criticised by JD Wetherspoon’s boss Sir Tim Martin, who said a ban can be unimaginable to implement and an ‘overreaction’.

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