Footage uploaded to social media by comedian Mike Goldstein shows a man in a heated exchange with cabin crew, repeatedly telling them to ‘fuck off’ when they ask him to move to the back of the plane.
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Standing in the aisle, he appears to be stumbling and slurring his words, telling a flight attendant he wants to ‘walk out for a ciggie’. The QF21 flight departed Melbourne bound for Dallas on Friday, but was diverted to Papeete in Tahiti. The captions on this video were created by the uploader of the vision
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