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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Unruly passenger arrested in Kona

Advertiser Staff

A man who authorities say drank five to six bottles of champagne aboard a flight from Japan to Kona has been arrested and charged with assaulting four crew members and interfering with the flight crew.

Iwao Amano, who was aboard the flight that left Narita Sunday, and reportedly drank the champagne in economy class, is accused of then punching one of the flight attendants "lightly in the forehead" when trying to move to the business class.

He later grabbed a flight attendant by her hips, lunged at another flight attendant and tried to grab her breasts and kicked a flight purser, an FBI affidavit said.

Assistant U.S. attorney Loretta Sheehan said she assumes the champagne was in small bottles typically given to passengers.

Amano was charged with five petty misdemeanor counts of assault and a felony charge of interfering with the crew.