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FBI: Man arrested for biting Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant

BRUCE ASATO / FEB. 13, 2012

A Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300 plane is serviced at the Honolulu Airport.

The FBI and state sheriffs arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly bit a flight attendant on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Pago Pago in American Samoa to Honolulu overnight.

An FBI spokesman said the man, identified as Togia Aumoeualogo, of American Samoa, is in custody pending a court appearance at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Aumoeualogo is accused of interfering with a flight crew, a federal crime with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

He allegedly became belligerent on the overnight flight, bit a flight attendant and threatened the flight crew, the FBI said.

Hawaiian Airlines flight 466 left Pago Pago at about 11:30 p.m. local time.

Aumoeualogo was arrested when the plane landed in Honolulu at about 5:30 a.m.

59 responses to “FBI: Man arrested for biting Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant”

  1. HanabataDays says:

    Guess da kalua peeg was just one pupu, yeah?

  2. BuhByeAloha says:

    I’m not surprised. Some of the older stewardesses are mean.

    • dragoninwater says:

      I’m surprised the stewardesses didn’t bite him! haaaa

    • Blunt says:

      Gotta be. A planeful of Mokes is hard to handle. Got enough troubles with apes with slow poke wide loads, illiteracy, and stupendous stupid heads. Arm the hospitality crew and give them silencers. Three taps to the heart and pau. If no got silencer then lift an arm and press muzzle into the armpit. Shoot three times in rapid succession to hit the heart. Once the heart stops bleeding stops. Just fold the arm down over the hole and tape it to the body. Wound is sealed tight until landing. Civil rights don’t exist in the air and outside national borders. Wonderful how a small hand-sized piece of steel can neutralize a savage shiite with a press of a little finger. Oh yes, in case I forget. The model should be a S&W Centennial. Perfectly compact enough to fit a woman’s hand. Buy the hammerless one and a crotch holster.

    • BigIsandLava says:

      Meaner than one drunk Samoan? I no think so.

  3. Bully says:

    Probably got on the airplane drunk and kept drinking. Samoans and alcohol do not mix. The judge is not going to have much tolerance for him at sentencing. Plead guilty and hopefully the judge sends you home.

  4. HawaiiCheeseBall says:

    Better check for rabies?

  5. lowtone123 says:

    One small bag pretzels not enough

  6. scuddrunner says:

    Dude was hungry.

  7. Shawn211 says:

    He got mad a the stewardess because could find the handle to open the window because he was hot.

  8. dragoninwater says:

    Looks like another future $1-million dollar tax loss for local tax payers. If he gets sentenced here on Giligan’s Island, it’ll cost around $89,000 annually to keep him locked up. He should be fined, pay restitution to the flight crew and deported back to where he came from immediately otherwise we’ll pay almost $1-million dollars to keep him incarcerated for the next 10+ years.

  9. popolo says:

    i thought only dogs bite?

  10. twitter6 says:

    See you in 20 years. Sounds like a caveman

  11. 64hoo says:

    Dracula is alive and well.

  12. lespark says:

    He’s Lucky they didn’t have a white Air Marshall that didn’t like Samoans on board. He would be DOA.

  13. KonaWarrior says:

    Will he get sentenced to Western Samoa?

  14. thruthful says:

    Maybe the uneatable food served on Hawaiian Air is the culprit.

  15. wn says:

    First of all my thoughts with the flight attendent and I hope the injury and subsequent lab test come back negative. O.K. so now what? We’ll have a protest group advocate passing a law for us to wear muzzles. I can see it now, designer fashion muzzles…”Fashions by Hannibal”…:)

  16. mctruck says:

    In all my years, this is the 1st time I’ve ever read of a Samoan biting a flight attendant; and I’m talking (70 yrs.).

  17. Tita Girl says:

    Hawaiian Air should ban him from all of their flights. FOREVER.

  18. Cellodad says:

    You’re kidding, could the SA make this up? Should Hawaiian AL flight attendants get combat pay for certain destinations?

    • Cellodad says:

      I take my comment back. Some of the very nicest people I’ve met in four decades in Hawaii are Samoan. They have been so nice to me and have helped me a lot. One jerk does not define an entire people.

  19. inverse says:

    Was the flight attendant bitten male or female and where was he/she bitten? There might be some kind of Freudian thing going on here.

    • biggerdog says:

      No kidding. Suprisingly few details. Was he restrained? By passengers and or crew? Or did they pacify him until landing? No meat to this story.
      Typical SA reporting.

  20. shayarai says:

    I’ve always wondered why more is not done to publicize that it’s a FEDERAL crime if you mess with transportation officials like flight crews and bus drivers. There should be bold signs on every bus and at every airport and bus depot explaining penalties. Hard to say what a drunk would do, but if people are aware of potentially serious federal penalties they might think twice about acting up.

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