In mid-flight, a passenger bites a flight attendant who asks him to sit down, the plane is forced to turn around

Un avion fait demi-tour en plein milieu du pacifique après qu'un passager a mordu une hôtesse. Suhyeon Choi sur Unsplash

It was during a flight to Seattle that 55-year-old American Michael Travis Halyard bit a flight attendant while He was intoxicated. The plane was forced to turn around and the passenger was handed over to the Japanese authorities. 

It was this Wednesday, January 17, that the Japanese company ANA reported that a flight attendant was bitten on the arm by a American passenger, forcing the Seattle-bound flight to turn around. 

Having taken off from the Tokyo capital this Tuesday late evening, the ANA flight was initially scheduled to cross the Pacific Ocean overnight to reach Seattle.

It was only after two hours of flight, when the plane was still above the Japanese archipelago , that a flight attendant was bitten on the arm by an American passenger, as reported Le Parisien. 

"I don't remember anything at all" 

Faced with this most unusual incident, the pilots of the aircraft made the decision to turn around towards Haneda airport in Tokyo, where the passenger was handed over to the law enforcement, indicates the airline. 

The individual who is believed to be behind this act is a 55-year-old American named Michael Travis Halyard. The man apparently became angry and bit the hostess when the latter asked him to sit down, before being subdued by the hostess. crew, informs Japanese television TBS. 

The passenger arrested upon his arrival in Tokyo, reportedly declared to investigators: "I don't remember anything at all"< /em>. According to initial hypotheses, he probably took sleeping pills before the plane took off, but this remains to be confirmed.