Mayor Boris Johnson caught up in air rage incident on board flight into Heathrow

Boris is reported to have step in to try to calm the incident after a passenger 'kicked off' on board a Malaysia Airlines flight.

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16:41, 3 DEC 2014
Updated18:24, 3 DEC 2014

London Mayor Boris Johnson used his persuasive powers to help calm down a 'drunk and abusive' passenger on board a flight today.

The Conservative politician, who hopes to be elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip next May, was on board a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Heathrow - returning from a trade mission to the far east - when the incident occured on Wednesday, December 3. A passenger reportedly became abusive towards staff and Boris tried to calm the man down, warning him he would be arrested at Heathrow if not.

The Metropolitan Police later confirmed that a 43 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk aboard an aircraft and common assault.

A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "The mayor along with a number of other passengers and members of the cabin crew did make several attempts to calm the gentleman concerned but to no avail."

Update: 6pm: Police have confirmed that David Owen Morris, 43 from Ash Vale, Aldershot, has been charged with one count of assault by beating; one count of behaving in a threatening / abusive / insulting manner towards a member of the crew in an aircraft and one count of being drunk in a plane. He has been bailed to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on December 18.

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