Drunken American passenger arrested for brawl on Japan flight

A drunken American passenger was arrested over his foul behavior which led him to fight with another passenger and land punches on the staff of the airline he was travelling on.

According to the details of the incident provided, the incident took place on Wednesday onboard the All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight, which was late for its scheduled take-off.

The drunken man, whose name has not been released, was seen in a leaked video, wearing a red Hawaii shirt and misbehaving with fellow passengers and later with the staff of the airline.

The Boeing 777 on which the brawl took place was due to fly from Tokyo’s main gateway Narita airport to Los Angeles. The flight was already delayed due to bad weather and the altercation further delayed the flight.

A passenger on the same flight filmed the incident while he was seated a few rows behind. He uploaded the video on social media, after which it got widespread viewership. In the video, the man is heard shouting ‘I will kill you’ to his fellow passenger with whom he was at loggerheads.

“The plane was about 50 minutes late, so everyone was a little irritated because of that, kinda frustrated,” Corey Hour, the passenger who shot the video, told the BBC. The man in the red Hawaiian shirt is seen throwing punches at another male passenger, as other people on the flight try to escape the area, until ANA staff separate the two men.

The drunken man then shakes off the female flight attendant who was trying to restrain him and continues to throw punches. “The flight attendants actually got caught up in the mix and that’s when the video ends as I put my phone down and I actually got in the middle of everyone and confronted him,” Hour added.

“The suspect, a US citizen, was drunk and arrested after he injured an ANA official following the fight,” a member of the airport police told AFP.

Officials of the Japanese police formally arrested the man for harming the airline official. He is still under arrest till the filing of this report.

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