On an Ryanair flight a drunken passenger who took off his shirt and started shaddow boxing at the end of the plane was contained by fligth staff as the plane was forced to land. Courtesy: Gints Akmentins

On an Ryanair flight a drunken passenger who took off his shirt and started shaddow boxing at the end of the plane was contained by fligth staff as the plane was forced to land. Courtesy: Gints Akmentins

A PASSENGER who had a stash of alcohol bottles on a plane allegedly touched a woman and viewed pornographic material while pleasuring himself, a horrified Australian traveller claims.

The shocking incident occurred on board Jetstar flight JQ12 from Narita, Japan, to the Gold Coast on December 6.

Nathan Paterson, 29, is so furious about the way the airline dealt with the situation both during and after the flight, that he decided to warn the public about just how wrong things can go in the skies.

Mr Paterson claims the trouble began about four hours into the flight, when the man inappropriately touched his partner.

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“My girlfriend, who was sitting next to me, notified me that the gentleman (next to her) felt her twice down the right side of her body from her shoulder down past her buttocks and thigh ... he touched her in a sexual manner,” he told news.com.au.

“I asked the passenger if he touched my girlfriend and he automatically started to apologise ... At that stage I noticed the man smelt strongly of alcohol and detected that he had about six bottles of clear liquid.”

Mr Paterson alerted the cabin crew, who then confronted the man about touching his girlfriend and asked what was in the bottles. They took the bottles away and returned with only those that didn’t contain alcohol.

But the nightmare continued.

“The man then started to make me feel very uncomfortable by staring at me and talking to me in an aggressive nature in Japanese. For about 30 minutes the man was standing up and opening the overhead locker then sitting down again.”

He then pulled out another half-full bottle of vodka from the overhead locker and placed it under his seat. Mr Paterson again informed staff, who confiscated it.

The man then became even more aggressive, placing Mr Paterson in a difficult situation.

“I tried to ignore him as I didn’t want to make the situation worse,” Mr Paterson said.

The next thing he knew, the man got out his laptop and a pornographic magazine, pulled his pants down and started touching himself.

“As he started reading the magazine he pulled down his pants all the way to his ankles to expose his leggings. He then proceeded to place his hands into his leggings and start moving his arm in an up and down motion.”

He did this for about 10 minutes, then opened his laptop and viewed images of females, some dressed and some undressed, again putting his hands down his pants. This continued for the next three hours, with the man alternating between the magazine and laptop.

“I was very concerned and felt uncomfortable with what he was viewing and the actions he was displaying as a group of young Japanese girls were seated in the row behind and beside us.”

However, Mr Paterson said he didn’t alert the crew to what was going on at this stage, as he was concerned for the safety of everyone.

“I felt very unsafe and insecure on the flight and could not relax or sleep. I spent the last half of the flight watching the man to make sure he didn’t harass my girlfriend.”

He claims the staff noticed what was happening but didn’t act.

“The staff did see him reading the magazine and using the computer program ... I was disgusted a man was allowed to read and look at pornographic material within eye view of school-aged children.”

When the plane landed, the couple reported the incident to customs and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the passenger was charged over the incident.

“The AFP can confirm that members from Gold Coast Airport Operations spoke to a male Japanese national on 7 December 2014,” an AFP spokesperson told news.com.au (the flight had been an overnight one).

“As a result of this, a 50-year-old man attended court where he plead guilty to offensive and disorderly behaviour on an aircraft, and was fined $2125.

Concerned with how the situation was handled by Jetstar, Mr Paterson penned a letter to the airline, writing: “My partner and I really felt very uncomfortable during the whole situation and feel disappointed that the staff seemed not to take the whole situation seriously. As customers of Jetstar I feel that our privacy and safety should have been paramount to your staff but apparently we must not have been important enough.”

He questioned why they weren’t offered to be relocated away from the problem passenger, and why the airline didn’t suggest they report the incident.

“At no point after we landed did any of your staff approach us to apologise or ask us if we would like to report the incident to the Australian Federal Police. We decided to notify Customs and the AFP when we got off the flight.”

He said he was appalled at Jetstar’s customer service, saying it took them 38 days to respond to his initial complaint.

Jetstar told news.com.au that it had investigated the incident.

“Clearly this was a distressing incident and we regret that one of our passengers was subjected to the deplorable behaviour of another passenger on-board,” a Jetstar spokesperson said. “We placed the offending passenger on our No Fly List and they are unable to travel on any Qantas Group flights including Jetstar.

“We’ve apologised to the passenger affected for our delay in communicating with them as we conducted an internal investigation. Jetstar takes the safety and security of all our passengers very seriously and we have assisted the Australian Federal Police with their investigations.”