A DRUNK sex pest plane passenger grabbed a woman’s bottom before smashing up the toilet of the jet at 30,000 feet.
Adam Pitcher, 36, almost forced the pilot to make an emergency landing during his rampage through a transatlantic Air Canada flight.
Pitcher groped the woman in a toilet queue before demanding the man she was travelling with perform a sex act on him.
He had earlier slapped the 18-year-old’s bottom as she walked past him shortly before take off on the flight from Canada to London Heathrow on June 28.
When flight crew ordered the married Canadian dad-of-one to sit down he locked himself in the toilet and caused £1,700 of damage.
The pilot was making a “mental preparation for loss of pressure and an emergency descent” and considered Pitcher’s behaviour was just one level down from an emergency.
Pitcher travelled from Canada to plead guilty to two counts of sexual assault, being drunk on board an aircraft and damaging an aircraft at Isleworth Crown Court today.
He was jailed for four months.
Yetunde Martins, prosecuting, told the court: “Whilst on the flight it was clear the defendant was intoxicated with alcohol, so much so that crew members refused to serve him any further on board.
“During that flight the defendant was waiting in a queue of passengers to use the toilet facilities.
“A member of staff observed that the queue was too long and advised that a number of people go and use the toilet at the rear of the plane.
“In that queue was the female victim, standing immediately in front of the defendant.
“As they made their way towards the rear of the plane the victim felt her buttock being cupped and noticed in fact it was the defendant.
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“She ignored this initially and carried on making her way on to the rear of the aircraft.
“The defendant proceeded further to slap her bottom with his hand.”
Miss Martins said Pitcher approached then approached the 19-year-old man and after a brief conversation, tried to kiss him on the neck.
The prosecutor added: “He didn’t manage to do this, but said to him ‘can you suck my d***?'”
A statement from the captain read out in court explained he feared Pitcher was trying to break out of the plane as he vandalised the toilet.
The captain said: “I was worried he might be trying to get out of the plane.
“I had an increased heart rate and was worried he might be trying to get out of the plane because he realised the trouble he was in.”
Defending, Andrew Locke said: “He is an alcoholic and has been since his late teens.
“This was his first drink in a year and unfortunately the recovering alcoholic fell off the wagon.
“He becomes a Jeckyl and Hyde character. At home he is the most mild-mannered of men. It was two hours of madness.”
Sentencing, Judge Andrew McDowall said: “Your behaviour was disgraceful and one of the factors in a long haul flight is people who in other circumstances would distance themselves from you have no opportunity and are stuck on a plane.”
He was also ordered to pay £1,700 for the damage he caused, £700 in costs and a £115 victim surcharge.
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