Man arrested on Japan to America flight after allegedly biting cabin crew member

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A person has been arrested at a Tokyo airport after allegedly biting a cabin crew member on a flight sure for Seattle.

The All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight was pressured to return to Haneda Airport in Tokyo within the early hours of Wednesday morning after the incident prompted the captain to make a U-turn over the Pacific Ocean.

Data from Flight Radar exhibits an ANA Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner departing from the key flight hub at 9:47pm native time earlier than turning round at 10:50pm and touchdown again on the airport at 12:23am on Wednesday morning.

Kyodo News reported {that a} 55-year-old American man was restrained by crew members after which handed over to police on suspicion of inflicting harm to a member of cabin crew.

Several native information retailers reported that the person denied the allegation and was cited as saying he “does not remember what happened as he had taken a sleeping pill”.

The Independent has contacted Tokyo Police, ANA and Haneda Airport for a remark.

Japanese air journey has made a number of headlines in current weeks, with two crashes occurring inside two weeks of one another.

On January 2nd, a deadly aircraft collision additionally at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport left 5 folks useless when a Japan Airlines erupted into flames after the collision with a coastguard plane on the runway.

Footage from inside the Japan Airlines Airbus-A350, which was carrying 379 folks, together with eight youngsters, confirmed smoke pouring from beneath its wings because it landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport at round 5.45pm native time (8.45am GMT).

By the time the aircraft got here to a standstill, it was engulfed by flames as rescuers rushed to evacuate all of the passengers. Five coastguard crew members have been killed within the collision. The pilot survived however was in a severe situation.

A passenger on board the business flight described the second their aircraft appeared to have collided with the opposite plane.

“I felt a boom,” the unnamed passenger informed the Kyodo information company, “like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed. I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.”

Just yesterday, A Korean Air Lines aircraft got here into contact with a Cathay Pacific Airways plane at New Chitose Airport on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

A Korean Air spokesperson mentioned: “A Korean Air aircraft came into contact with a Cathay aircraft during pushback at New Chitose (Sapporo) Airport by the third-party ground handler vehicle which slipped due to heavy snow. There were no injuries and the airline is cooperating with all relevant authorities.”