{"id":627529,"date":"2026-04-24T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:56:10","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-biting-kicking-flight-attendant-and-passenger-on-aussie-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627529\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly biting, kicking flight attendant and passenger on Aussie flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/perth\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Perth\">Perth<\/a> today after allegedly kicking at a flight attendant and biting a fellow passenger on a flight from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/canberra\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Canberra\">Canberra<\/a> to Perth earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Queanbeyan man is accused of shouting, swearing and ignoring instructions on the flight on April 16.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police say he kicked and pushed the seat in front of him and became aggressive to the female passenger occupying the seat when she asked him to stop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e07c297f-4bbc-4f6e-9b87-bf3a4916f043.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>The man is arrested by Australian Federal Police officers in Perth. (AFP)<\/p>\n<p>Cabin crew were forced to restrain the man, who allegedly kicked at the cabin manager and attempted to bite the arm of a passenger assisting with the restrain.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officers boarded the place when it landed in Perth and removed the man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being in the air does not give anyone a free pass from the law and consequences on the ground,&#8221; AFP Acting Superintendent Peter Brindal said.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged with \ufeffone count of assaulting an aircraft crew member with has a maximum penalty of 14 years&#8217; imprisonment and one count each of failing to comply with a safety instruction given by a cabin crew member and offensive or disordely behaviour on an aircraft which both carry maximum penalties of $16,500.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man will face court in Perth today after allegedly kicking at a flight attendant and biting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-627529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}