‘Drunk’ passenger in business class hogtied after headbutting flight attendant as ‘terrified’ passengers look on

A “drunk” and “extremely violent” passenger on a plane from Dubai was caught on camera headbutting a flight attendant, causing crew members to tackle him and restrain him with cable ties, video shows.

The incident took place in the business class section of an Emirates flight to Islamabad on Sunday morning, according to Pakistani journalist Amir Mateen, who posted the footage on X.

In the clip, a tall thin man with long hair wearing jeans, a leather jacket and Adidas sneakers is seen headbutting a male flight attendant who was holding him by his collar.

After the attack, the unruly passenger was tackled to the ground by the attendant and another crew member, who held him down and tied his legs together with the help of a female attendant.

Another clip, apparently taken on the jet bridge after the plane landed, showed the suspect being tied into a wheelchair with his hands behind his back.

Marteen posted that he was sent the clip by a “passenger who remained terrified during the flight.”

The tipster said the suspect was a “Drunk guy extremely violent [sic],” adding that he was “Restrained and handcuffed by emirates cabin crew but I think Pak authorities let him go as he was well connected.”

Emirates did not immediately return a request for comment from The Post.

The incident came as caught-on-camera attacks on flight crew members and fellow passengers continued to make headlines.

Earlier this month, a fistfight erupted between two passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Hawaii, forcing other passengers and crew members to try to intervene, video showed.

Last month, a man on a Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas allegedly punched and hit a fellow passenger and tried to stab him in the eye with a crude makeshift weapon — pens bound together with a rubber band.

The previous week saw an IndiGo pilot attacked by a passenger who was upset to learn that his flight from Delhi to Goa, India was heavily delayed due to poor visibility.

The International Air Transport Association estimated last year that there was “one unruly incident reported for every 568 flights in 2022,” and noted “growing concern” over the “increasing frequency and severity of these incidents.”

Complaints of unruly passengers on flights with at least one leg in the US had soared at the high of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 6,000 of them reported in 2021, a shocking 492% increase from the previous year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The rate of unruly passengers had declined by about 80% from that record high, “but recent increases show there remains more work to do,” the agency said.