‘Drunk’ passenger forces touchdown after ‘biting flight attendant’s arm’
An American passenger accused of biting a flight attendant’s arm in a drunken rage has been pictured being perp-walked out of Japan‘s Haneda Airport.
The spectacled suspect, named by Japanese outlet TBS News as 55-year-old Michael Travis Halyard, allegedly pressured the flight to return to Tokyo on its path to Seattle on Tuesday night time, and was promptly arrested after the ANA Airlines jet landed on the runway.
He reportedly informed investigators that he took sleeping tablets and ‘does not recall in any respect’ his alleged antics on the flight, which left the hostess mildly injured.
The alleged biting incident is simply the most recent in a terrifying string of aviation disasters, which included two passenger jets colliding at a Japanese airport only a day earlier than the biting incident.
The spectacled suspect, reportedly recognized as 55-year-old Michael Travis Haliyad, pressured the flight to return to Tokyo on its path to Seattle on Tuesday night time after allegedly biting a stewardess
The passenger on the ANA aircraft stated he had taken sleeping tablets earlier than allegedly sinking his tooth into the crew member’s arm whereas ‘closely drunk’, leaving her mildly injured (File Photo)
The incident prompted pilots of the aircraft with 159 passengers on board to show again over the Pacific to Haneda airport, the place the person was handed over to police, in keeping with ANA (File Photo)
The passenger’s alleged drunken conduct got here whereas he was ‘closely drunk’, prompting the plane with 159-passengers to show round over the Pacific Ocean.
ANA informed MailOnline: ‘On January 16, NH118 departing from Tokyo Haneda to Seattle returned in the course of the flight as a consequence of an intoxicated passenger who was appearing in an unsafe method to the flight crew and passengers.
‘Upon arrival at Haneda Airport, the passenger was turned over to the native police. There have been no reported accidents among the many passengers and the flight has been rescheduled to depart on January 17.’
The airline added: ‘The security and safety of our passengers and workers are ANA’s high precedence and we’ll take all obligatory actions to make sure it.’
The weird incident left some social media customers likening it in mock horror to the ‘starting of a zombie film’.
It comes after a number of different aviation failures and near-disasters have rocked the business in current occasions, with two passenger jets colliding at New Chitose Airport on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido simply hours earlier than.
A Korean Airlines jet clipped a parked Cathawy Pacific Airways plane simply because the Korean aircraft was making ready to take off.
There have been 289 passengers on board the Korean Air aircraft in the course of the incident, though fortunately no accidents have been reported.
A extra severe incident occurred at Haneda Airport two weeks prior, when a near-catastrophic collision occurred between a Japan Airlines plane and a smaller coast guard aircraft on January 2.
All 379 individuals on board the JAL Airbus escaped simply earlier than the plane was engulfed in flames.
Five of the six individuals on the smaller plane, which was serving to in a aid operation after a significant earthquake in central Japan, died.
Just two weeks in the past, a extra severe incident unfolded at Haneda Airport when a Japan Airlines jet collided with a smaller coast guard aircraft. All 379 passengers and crew aboard the industrial flight have been efficiently evacuated moments earlier than the jet was ravaged by flames
Chilling footage of the A350 jet within the daylight present nothing however the wings and piles of ash remaining
It additionally comes as Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 plane, a workhorse for the aviation business, has come below scrutiny in current months.
Most notably, the plug door of recent Alaska Airlines jet blew out at 16,000 toes on January 5 after being in service for less than eight weeks.
Pilots flew the jet again to Portland, with solely minor accidents amongst passengers.
A terrified passenger on board the near-catastrophic flight revealed the second she texted her household ‘I do not need to die’ after a door plug on the jet blew out.
Emma Vu took to TikTok after surviving the horror Alaska Airlines flight 1282.
‘In the second I used to be so scared,’ Vu stated, as she confirmed her panic-stricken texts to her household studying: ‘The masks r down; I’m so scared proper now; Please pray for me; Please I do not need to die.’
In an interview with 7News Australia, she added: ‘I used to be extra involved with the aircraft dropping… I seemed exterior and it was going fairly easily. I feel everybody freaking out inside made me freak out.’
Shocking footage from contained in the aircraft noticed fliers sat in eerie silence shortly after the door plug exploded, as they seemed out of a gaping gap within the fuselage with the twinkling lights of Portland beneath.
Vu stated she was asleep when the devastating security failure erupted out of the blue and she or he ‘felt your complete aircraft drop’.
A photograph exhibits the blown out door plug. It is obtainable as a door on the plane. Alaska selected to not take this feature – though the body of the possible door was totally ripped out by the fuselage failure
Passenger Emma Vu stated she ‘felt your complete aircraft drop’ round 20 minutes into the horror Alaska Airlines flight 1282, which was certain from Portland to California earlier than a door plug blasted into the sky at 16,000 toes
Alaska flight 1282 left Portland simply after 5pm native time final Friday when a door plug blew out at 16,000 toes
‘The masks dropped, and persons are screaming,’ she continued, subsequent to a tearful selfie she took within the second that she feared may very well be her final.
She stated: ‘I’m so grateful for the women sat subsequent to me… They have been so candy at calming me down, and the flight attendants have been giving oxygen tanks to those that wanted it extra.
‘But I used to be freaking out as a result of my bag would not inflate – and that is actually what they let you know within the security factor, like don’t fret you are still getting air movement… When you are in battle or flight you are not serious about that.
‘It was simply so scary, nobody knew what was taking place. The pilot got here on to inform everybody to place your masks on earlier than you assist others – actually phrase for phrase what they let you know within the security coaching.’
