A Japanese All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane flying to Seattle returned to Tokyo Haneda Airport this morning after The passenger bit the flight attendant’s hand.

Male, 55 years old, American, was arrested upon arrival at the airport by local police on suspicion of causing bodily harm to a flight attendant in an incident on ANA Flight 118 while flying over the Pacific Ocean, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.

According to the police, The man claimed that he had taken sleeping pills. and that he does not remember what happened, the Japanese newspaper reports Yomiuri.

This is the latest in a series of incidents at Japanese airports since the beginning of the year and to come. causing concern in Asian country passengers and performer.

“The Japanese government will take measures to restore confidence in the aviation sector” This was stated today at a press conference by the official representative of the Japanese government, Yoshimasa Hayashi.

This news came after the previous day Two passenger planes from Korean Air and Cathay Pacific suffered a minor collision. at the new Chitose Airport in Hokkaido (northern Japan), both on the ground in poor visibility due to snowfall in the area.

The accident, which resulted in no injuries, occurred during Korean Air plane takes off for Seoul with 189 people on boardwas towed by another vehicle after snow removal work and collided with a Cathay Pacific vessel which had arrived from Hong Kong and whose passengers had already disembarked.

The rear of the Cathay Pacific plane and the left wingtip of the Korean Air plane were damaged, and the Korean company attributes the crash toThe snow caused the car towing the plane to skid.

On Tuesday At Chitose Airport, 46 flights were canceled due to the storm. although its operator Hokkaido Airports assured that the incident with Cathay Pacific and Korean Air did not cause more inconvenience than the three-hour flight delay of the Korean airline involved.

On January 2, a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane from Sapporo (north of the country) collided with another coast guard ship on the runway in an accident. The result was five deaths and hundreds of cancellations.

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379 passengers on the commercial flight were evacuated. although 14 of them were wounded, Of the six passengers on the coast guard plane, only the captain, who was seriously injured, managed to save his life.

(EFE)