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US-bound Japanese airliner returns to Tokyo after passenger bites cabin crew
Tokyo, Jan 17: A flight operated by Japan’s All Nippon Airways bound for the US city of Seattle returned to the Haneda airport in Tokyo on Wednesday after a passenger reportedly bit a cabin crew’s arm, local media reported.
The 55-year-old man, who is believed to be a US citizen, was arrested by Tokyo police upon landing on suspicion of causing injury to the cabin attendant, Xinhua news agency quoted Japan’s Kyodo News as saying in a reported.
The incident took place on Tuesday night while the passenger plane, flight 118, was flying over the Pacific, and the motive behind the man’s behaviour was still unclear.
(IANS)