A British Airways cabin crew member has been arrested after he was found dancing naked mid-flight in a business class toilet following a suspected drug binge.
The steward’s colleagues noticed he was missing when he failed to serve meals and drinks to passengers on the flight on Sunday, which was headed for London Heathrow from San Francisco.
After searching for him in the aircraft, his boss was shocked to discover him completely naked and dancing up and down in the cabin bathroom, The Sun reports.
‘We think the guy popped pills when he was meant to be working. It is an extraordinary thing to do,’ one furious colleague said about the incident.
‘The plane was cruising at 37,000ft over the Atlantic, but this bloke seemed to be higher than anyone else.’
Other members of staff quickly threw a spare pair of pyjamas reserved for First Class customers onto the nude flight attendant.
He was then taken into the First Class cabin, where he stayed for the remainder of the ten-and-a-half hour journey.
Upon landing, the flight attendant received medical attention and was escorted off the plane in a wheelchair, before being arrested by airport cops.
A British Airways cabin crew member was arrested after being found ‘dancing high and naked’ in a business class bathroom
British Airways told MailOnline the incident was a matter for the police when approached for comment.
It is understood that the crew member has been suspended from his job as he is investigated.
MailOnline has approached the Metropolitan Police for comment.
The incident involving the cabin crew member comes as a young British former flight attendant accused of smuggling £1.2 million worth of cannabis into Sri Lank appeared in court on Friday.
Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was arrested in Colombo after police discovered 46 kg of ‘Kush’ – a synthetic strain of cannabis – in her suitcase.
She had just arrived in the Sri Lankan capital on a flight from Bangkok in Thailand. She was arrested at Bandaranaike Airport and taken into custody on Monday, May 11.
On Friday, Charlotte was filmed in a white dress with her hands behind her back being escorted to a prison van by police outside the court building in Colombo.
She was visibly upset and tearful when she appeared in the courtroom.
The incident involving the cabin crew member comes as a young British former flight attendant accused of smuggling £1.2 million worth of cannabis into Sri Lank appeared in court on Friday
Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London , was arrested in the capital Colombo last week, but insists she has been set up. Pictured: Miss Lee speaks with MailOnline from behind bars
The Foreign Office in the UK has confirmed that it is supporting a British woman who has been arrested in Sri Lanka and is in contact with her family, as well as local authorities
The former TUI flight attendant was held in a cell at the back of the room and then briefly led to the witness box but struggled to follow proceedings because it was in the main language of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese.
Police also wheeled in the near-50kg haul of cannabis she was caught carrying into court as their investigation into the drugs bust continues. Charlotte is expected to appear in the dock again in two weeks.
She is facing up to 25 years locked in a hellhole Sri Lankan jail – but she has insisted she has been set up. MailOnline spoke to her from her cell last week where she admitted that she had not been eating because the food was too spicy.
Speaking to MailOnline from behind bars in the woman’s ward of a notorious prison last week, Miss Lee said she had ‘no idea’ that there were drugs in her luggage when she set off for Sri Lanka.
She said: ‘I had never seen them before. I didn’t expect it all when they pulled me over at the airport. I thought it was going to be filled with all my stuff.
‘I had been in Bangkok the night before and had already packed my clothes because my flight was really early.
‘So I left my bags in the hotel room and headed for the night out. As they were already packed I didn’t check them again in the morning.
‘They must have planted it then.’
Miss Lee told us she had been working temporarily on a ‘booze cruise’ in Thailand but her 30-day visa was about to run out so she decided to take a trip to nearby Sri Lanka while she waited for her Thai visa to be renewed.
She decided to go to the country because it was relatively nearby – only a three-hour flight away – and she had never visited there before.
‘I thought while I was waiting for the visa that I’d come to Sri Lanka.
‘They [the people she believed planted the drugs] were supposed to meet me here. But now I’m here – stuck in this jail.’
After her arrest, Miss Lee was initially held at the Police Narcotics Bureau for seven days.
She says she was forced to sleep on a sofa that had bed bugs with a security guard watching her the whole time.
Then on Sunday she was brought to Negombo Magistrates Court where she was given remanded in custody for a further 14 days while she awaits further hearings.
At this point she was transferred to Negombo Prison where she still remains, stuck in her crowded cell for 22 hours a day and only let out to eat and briefly stretch her legs.
And it was here that she spoke to MailOnline last week to highlight the ‘awful’ conditions in the prison – revealing she has not eaten any food at all for two days because the prison meals have been making her ill.