{"id":37166,"date":"2024-01-17T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37166"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:10:47","slug":"flight-returns-to-japan-after-drunk-man-bites-crew-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37166","title":{"rendered":"Flight returns to Japan after \u2018drunk\u2019 man bites crew member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BBC News: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A US-bound ANA flight was forced to return to Tokyo after an intoxicated passenger bit a crew member mid-flight.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, reportedly a 55-year-old American, was “heavily drunk” when he bit a cabinet attendant’s arm, slightly injuring her, a spokesman for the airline told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese media said the man told police he had taken a sleeping pill and did not remember what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the latest in a series of recent incidents to affect Japanese aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plane, which reportedly had 159 passengers on board, was over the Pacific Ocean when the incident happened, prompting its pilots to turn back to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There the man was handed over to police, the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the second incident to impact ANA in recent days – and the fifth involving the Japanese aviation industry in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, a domestic ANA flight in Japan had to turn back after <\/a>a crack was discovered in the window of the cockpit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crack appeared in the outermost of the four layers of window surrounding the cockpit, and there were no injuries to anyone on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurisation,” an ANA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most serious of the recent incidents occurred at Haneda on 2 January, when a Japanese Airlines aircraft collided<\/a> with a smaller coastguard plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All 379 people on board the passenger jet escaped before it burst into flames, but five of the six people on the smaller aircraft – which was supplying relief after a major earthquake hit central Japan – died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, aircraft belonging to Korean Air and Cathay Pacific clipped wings at an airport on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido amid wintry conditions. There were no injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar incident occurred on Sunday when an ANA aircraft came into “contact” with a Delta Air Lines plane at Chicago airport in the United States, the Japanese airline told AFP, also causing no injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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