A drunken woman reportedly left other passengers stunned when she took off her pants and began masturbating on a flight from Baltimore to Miami last month.
Katy Inzer, 46, committed the lewd act shortly after takeoff on an American Airlines evening flight on September 11, according to an incident report filed by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
A fellow passenger had complained to a flight attendant that Inzer had “removed her pants and began to actively masturbate while making inappropriate sounds,” the report said.
When approached by the attendant, Inzer stopped beating around the bush, put her pants back on and “fell asleep for the remainder of the flight,” according to the report.
When officers approached Inzer in Florida, they noted she had “a strong odor of alcohol [sic] beverage and bloodshot eyes,” and did not remember the alleged sexual misconduct because she “fell asleep,” the report said.
The incident was first reported by The Smoking Gun, which noted that the case was forwarded to the FBI because the jurisdiction of the alleged offense was unclear.
The US Department of Transportation urges anyone who observes sexual misconduct on a plane to “report the incident promptly” to the flight crew or law enforcement at the destination.
Last year, the FBI said it had investigated 104 incidents of sexual assault and misconduct aboard commercial aircraft in 2024.