A US-bound All Nippon Airways plane had to return to Tokyo after an intoxicated passenger bit a cabin attendant mid-flight, the Japanese carrier said Wednesday.
The passenger, reportedly a 55-year-old man believed to be American, sunk his teeth into the crew member’s arm while “heavily drunk”, leaving her mildly injured, an ANA spokesman told AFP.
The incident prompted the pilots of the plane with 159 passengers on board to turn back over the Pacific to Haneda airport, where the man was handed over to police, according to ANA.
Japanese broadcaster TBS quoted the passenger as telling investigators that he “doesn’t recall at all” his behaviour.
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The incident left some social media users likening it in mock horror to the “beginning of a zombie movie.”
Others lamented the litany of Japanese aviation woes so far this year, with four other incidents making headlines in just over two weeks
