A plane passenger was arrested after he was reportedly caught on masturbating during a Swiss air flight.
The suspect, 33, is accused of touching LX918 for other passengers from Zurich to Dresden, Germany on Monday morning during the flight.
A fellow passenger reported cabin crew that the man had his hands in his pants around 7.40 am, about halfway through the 73-minute flight, Blick reports.
The shocked passenger approached a stewardess and asked to move her chair. Crew members gave the man a warning, but it reportedly accepted repeated requests before he stopped involvement with the inappropriate act.
The federal police of Dresden took the suspect, only identified as a German subject, in custody at the landing.
He reportedly admitted that he had been 'active' in the presence of two female passengers, but told the police that he did not know he had done anything wrong because he “did not uncover his genitals.”
He is currently being investigated for causing a public nuisance.
A German man, 33, is accused of masturbating his chair during a Swiss air flight from Zurich to Dresden, Germany on Monday morning
The federal police of Dresden took the suspect in custody in the landing. He is currently being investigated for causing a public nuisance
The police confirmed the incident in a statement to Blick and stated that officers responded to an 'unusual incident that surpassed the limits of good behavior' on Monday morning.
A Swiss spokesperson also told MailOnline: 'We can confirm that an incident took place on our flight LX918 from Zurich to Dresden on Monday 24 March.
'One of the passengers of the flight behaved in an inappropriate intimate way during the flight. The crew gave a warning to the passenger involved.
“On arrival in Dresden, the passenger was transferred to the authorities.”
MailOnline approached the police for comment.
The incident comes only a few months after the airline was in scandal after crew members CCTV leaked a mile -high romp in November.
The images showed a few who deal with oral sex in the galley of a Swiss airplane for 12 hours of flight from the Thai capital Bangkok to Zurich
The video was made by cockpit-controlled security cameras on the flight, but later filmed and shared by members of the crew.
A Swiss spokesperson said at the time that the crew, when spotting the session on the camera, should 'intervene directly' and had not filmed it.
The images led to a Swiss air research into 'violations' of privacy, in which officials of airlines promise to identify and discipline the staff responsible for recording the video without the consent of the couple and placing on social media.
