PASSENGER ARRESTED IN HAWAII-JAPAN FLIGHT ASSAULT

Association Press/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher 10/14/14

A Japan Airlines flight had to return to Honolulu after a 29 year old passenger,Michael Tanouye, sexually assaulted a female passenger in the airplane’s bathroom.  Tanouyewas arrested for interfering with a flight crew and aggravated sexual assault aboard anaircraft.  The flight was en route to Kasai International Airport when Tanouye forced his wayinto a bathroom and sexually assault a woman.  The woman, who was returning home to Japan withher mother after a four-day vacation in Hawaii, went to use the restroom about an hour and 45minutes