By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-26 17:38:32 | Updated at 2025-04-05 03:00:21
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A plane passenger has been arrested after he was caught masturbating during a SWISS Air flight.
The suspect, 33, is accused of touching himself in front of other passengers during Flight LX918 from Zurich to Dresden, Germany on Monday morning.
A fellow passenger notified cabin crew that the man had his hands in his pants around 7.40am, roughly halfway through the 73-minute flight, Blick reports.
The shocked passenger approached a flight attendant and requested that her seat be moved. Crew members issued a warning to the man, but it reportedly took repeated requests before he stopped the engaging in the inappropriate act.
The Dresden Federal Police took the suspect, identified only as being a German national, into custody upon landing.
He reportedly admitted to having 'been active' in the presence of two female passengers, but told police he was not aware that he had done anything wrong because he 'did not expose his genitals'.
He is currently under investigation for causing a public nuisance.
A German man, 33, is accused of masturbating from his seat during a SWISS Air flight from Zurich to Dresden, Germany on Monday morning
The Dresden Federal Police took the suspect into custody upon landing. He is currently under investigation for causing a public nuisance
Police confirmed the incident in a statement to Blick, stating that officers responded to an 'unusual incident that exceeded the bounds of good behaviour' on Monday morning.
A SWISS spokesperson also confirmed the incident, saying: 'A passenger engaged in intimate acts during the flight, whereupon the crew issued a warning.'
MailOnline has approached police and the airline for comment.
The incident comes just months after the airline was embroiled in scandal after crew members leaked CCTV a footage of a mile-high romp in November.
The footage showed a couple engaging in oral sex in the galley of a Swiss Air plane during 12-hour-long flight from the Thai capital Bangkok to Zurich
The video was taken by cockpit-controlled security cameras on the flight, but later filmed and shared by members of the crew.
A SWISS spokesperson said at the time that crew, upon spotting the session on camera, should have 'intervened directly' and not filmed it.
The footage sparked a Swiss Air investigation into privacy 'violations', with airline officials promising to identify and discipline the staff responsible for recording the video without the couple's permission and posting it on social media.
