Woman claims Southwest passenger masturbated during entire flight

Southwest Airlines confirmed it is "looking into" claims that a man was masturbating aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Philadelphia on Tuesday, but the female passenger who was seated next to him told Fox News she wished the airline would do more.

The passenger reported the man’s alleged behavior to Southwest via Twitter as it was happening, claiming she would be putting herself at risk by leaving her seat. 

"[I] spent this entire flight sitting next to a guy who has his iPad open on the tray table, watching porn, WITHOUT using headphones or anything, and twice now his body has started shaking in the throes of his orgasmic bliss,” she wrote.  “I’m so disgusted."

The woman told Fox News that the male passenger's crude behavior began shortly after takeoff and continued through the nearly five-hour flight.

As soon as he turned his iPad on, she said, she could see a pornographic video loaded in his browser. At first she thought it was an embarrassing mistake on the man's part, but soon observed him watch "video after video like it was nothing."

"The first time he was 'finishing,' he used his left hand and gripped my right forearm, pinning it down to the arm rest between us," the woman told Fox News. "It made it clear to me how strong he was, given how forceful his grip was, which is why I felt uncomfortable and reached out to SW on Twitter — hoping they’d ask my seat number and notify someone — because I didn’t know if he’d try to physically do anything else if I went to take a photo or video, nor did I want to find out," she says.

In her tweets, the woman further alleged that the man did not try to hide his actions or his penis. She also said that following his orgasms he handed the flight attendant his used napkins to dispose of.

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