Plane crazy! Moment a man lights a CIGARETTE while on a flight - to the fury of his fellow passengers - before an attendant quickly puts it out

  • A man was filmed lighting up a cigarette while aboard a flight on May 21
  • The incident took place on a Spirit Airlines flight headed to Minnesota at 8.30am 
  • The man was lying across two seats, making loud outbursts, and lit the cigarette
  • A concerned passenger flagged down an attendant who ashed the cigarette on a seat tray and said: 'You cannot smoke on airplanes. It's against the law' 
  • The man jumped and appeared startled when attendant put out the cigarette 
  • Upon landing, airport police escorted him off the flight   

This is the dangerous moment a dazed man aboard a flight to Minnesota lights up a cigarette and takes a puff - despite smoking being illegal on planes. 

The man, wearing a dark polo and shorts, is filmed by a woman sitting in his row on the Minneapolis-bound Spirit Airlines flight at 8.30am on May 21.

She captures the moment the man lights up his cigarette, despite the concerned faces of passengers around him, shifts his body to get comfortable, and calmly closes his eyes. 

A concerned passenger then flags down a flight attendant.   

This is the dangerous moment a dazed man aboard a flight to Minnesota lights up a cigarette and takes a puff - despite smoking being illegal on planes

This is the dangerous moment a dazed man aboard a flight to Minnesota lights up a cigarette and takes a puff - despite smoking being illegal on planes

The man, wearing a dark polo and shorts was filmed lighting up by a woman sitting in his row on the Minneapolis-bound flight at 8.30am on May 21
He appeared to be dazed and the woman filming thought he was inebriated

The man, wearing a dark polo and shorts, was filmed lighting up by a woman sitting in his row on the Minneapolis-bound flight at 8.30am on May 21

The concerned passenger in orange flagged down the flight attendant after seeing the man spark up

The concerned passenger in orange flagged down the flight attendant after seeing the man spark up 

'Throughout the flight, I could hear him making loud outbursts. Roughly 40 minutes before we landed, he laid across the two seats with his butt towards me. He continued his loud outbursts and began aggressively flipping the tray open and closed, then he sat up,' the woman who filmed the video said. 

'I saw him take the cigarettes and lighter out of his pocket. I pulled out my phone and started to record as he lit the cigarette. The man across from us became nervous and flagged the attendant down as I recorded,' she explained. 

The attendant then comes over and wakes the man up and snatches the cigarette out of his hands. 

'You cannot smoke on airplanes. It's against the law, you do know that, right?'

The man was ratted out by other passengers on the plane
The flight attendant woke up the man and said: 'You cannot smoke on airplanes. It's against the law'

The flight attendant woke up the man and said: 'You cannot smoke on airplanes. It's against the law'

The smoking man appeared startled when the flight attendant took the cigarette out of his hand and put it out on a seat tray
The flight attendant asked to see the man's boarding pass after the incident

The smoking man appeared startled when the flight attendant took the cigarette out of his hand and put it out on a seat tray. Upon landing, airport police escorted him off the flight

The man jumps and appears startled saying 'Oh man!' when the attendant takes the cigarette and puts it out on the airplane seat tray. 

The attendant then demands to see his boarding pass and the man quickly brings it out. 

'The attendant put the cigarette out on the tray and took his boarding pass. He didn't have any other issues, and when we landed, the airport police took him off the flight first,' the woman who filmed the video said. 

It's not clear what happened to the man after his arrest.  

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