Man arrested after attempting to trip flight attendant

A spokesperson from Rex said the incident had caused a 2 hour and 45-minute delay to the flight.

As per The Advertiser, the man was charged with Commonwealth offences which included assault/threaten/intimidate a crew member of an aircraft and endangering the safety of an aircraft.

Back in November, a similar incident took place on a Qantas flight, when a man reportedly refused to switch his tablet to flight mode as required by the cabin crew.

According to Melbourne’s 3AW, the passenger, apparently a, CEO of an unnamed company, held up the flight for about an hour when he refused this simple request.

Qantas confirmed to 3AW that a passenger on the flight “did not follow instruction with regard to an electronic device” on a flight between Canberra and Melbourne on Friday night and the plane was forced to head on back to the airport gate.

As expected, Qantas reiterated that safety is always its top priority, and they were unable to fly unless the man complied with their safety procedures for electronics.

Seriously dude, all you had to do was switch to Flight Mode.