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Russian in custody for violence on Korean Air plane

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By Park Si-soo

A Russian man has been arrested for abusing and elbowing cabin crew on a Korean Air flight, police said Thursday.

The man, 53, is suspected of yelling at and tussling with cabin crew on the flight to Incheon International Airport from Thailand's resort island of Phuket on Wednesday. Police said he threw the tantrum at cabin crew and elbowed them when they intervened in his noisy altercation with his wife.

Airport police arrested him onboard after the plane landed. The couple was on the way to Russia's Vladivostok via Incheon airport.