Flyers beware ... a woman was molested while asleep on a flight Source: ThinkStock
A PLANE passenger groped a woman’s breast for five minutes while she slept on a flight while other plane passengers watched.
Police say the man, Vinay Pochampally, reached over from behind and placed his hand down the woman’s shirt on a recent British Airways flight from London to San Francisco.
The incident happened about two hours into the flight.
According to the The Smoking Gun, FBI agent Bianca Betz wrote in a sworn affidavit that Pochampally “positioned himself in the gap behind row 37 and in front of the bulkhead.”
“While in that gap, Pochampally inserted his hand, palm-side down, into the shirt of the sleeping female passenger,” said Betz adding that Pochampally’s hand was “underneath the passenger’s shirt and undergarments for approximately four to five minutes, making skin-to-skin contact in the breast and upper chest area,”
Pochampally, who was reportedly intoxicated, removed his hand from the woman’s shirt only after she woke up. That sent him running away down the plane’s aisle.
“Multiple passengers” witnessed the incident and reported the incident to crew members.
He was moved to a different seat for the remainder of the 10-hour trip.
Pochampally was charged with simple assault in a misdemeanour complaint filed on Tuesday in San Francisco federal court.
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