By Collin Cunningham
(MIAMI, Fla.) Passengers aboard a Frontier Airlines flight taped a Norwalk, Ohio man to an airplane chair during a trip from Philadelphia to Miami over the weekend after he had too many drinks and began assaulting crew members.
After touching down in Florida on July 31, FOX8 reported that 22-year-old Maxwell Berry was arrested in his tape cocoon and learned he would be facing three counts of battery, the same quantity as the number of drinks he had on the flight.
The following video posted by Daily Mail shows Berry yelling "Help!" with tape wedged in his mouth as he was unable to move in his economy-class seat.
The site reports that Berry, after ordering and consuming a drink, brushed an empty cup against the rear end of a flight attendant. At one point he screamed that his parents were worth $2 million.
FOX8 reports he later spilled a second drink on himself and emerged from the plane bathroom shirtless. Police say the flight attendant from before ordered Berry to put a shirt on and he complied, only to walk down the aisle of the plane and grope the breasts of a second attendant. He later groped the breasts of both attendants at once.
The tape came out after Berry punched another flight attendant in the face when they attempted to intervene, with the man's fellow passengers securing him to the seat. NBC News reports that the third attendant had been ordered to watch the unruly passenger.
Frontier Airlines issued the following written statement in response to the incident:
During a flight from Philadelphia to Miami on July 31, a passenger made inappropriate physical contact with two flight attendants and subsequently physically assaulted another flight attendant. As a result, the passenger needed to be restrained until the flight landed in Miami and law enforcement arrived. Frontier Airlines maintains the utmost value, respect, concern and support for all of our flight attendants, including those who were assaulted on this flight. We are supporting the needs of these team members and are working with law enforcement to fully support the prosecution of the passenger involved. The inflight crew members’ current paid leave status is in line with an event of this nature pending an investigation.