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All Nippon Airways (ANA) Airbus Flight 321 takes off from Osaka on July 6, 2023.
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An All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight bound for Seattle was forced to return to Tokyo on Tuesday after an American Airlines passenger bit a female flight attendant during the flight, an airline spokesperson announced.
According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, ANA Flight 118 departed from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 9:47 p.m. local time and returned in just over an hour.
An ANA spokesperson told CNN that a male passenger was detained by police after the plane landed in the Japanese capital. They didn’t say his name.
The female flight attendant suffered minor injuries, a spokeswoman said.
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The Metropolitan Police Department did not disclose details of the incident.
This is not the first incident involving air biting. In 2022, his two passengers was given a hefty fine He is accused of punching and biting flight attendants and other passengers on separate flights on American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.
They were fined $81,950 and $77,272, respectively, the two largest fines ever imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration on individual passengers for their actions on an aircraft. It is.
Several incidents of malicious behavior and aggressive behavior by passengers have been reported this month. american airlines flights The flight was diverted to a Texas airport on January 3 after a passenger allegedly punched a flight attendant and assaulted at least one police officer.
