Flight passenger's crazy move to stop seats from reclining

A PLANE passenger was caught holding a ‘ridiculous’ position to ‘stop the seats in front of him reclining during eight-hour flight’

- By ABIGAIL MARLOW

Gary James was onboard the TUI flight from Mexico to Manchester when he says another passenger ‘slammed’ his hands onto the seats in front to stop them from reclining.

The 31-year-old claims the man placed his hands there as soon as the flight took off and kept them in place throughout the duration of the eight-hour-long flight.

Video footage filmed by Gary shows the man with his hands pressed up against either side of the middle seat in front of him as he watches a film on the screen in the back of the seat.

He appears to deliberately angle his hands so that it covers all three seats in the row in front of him - which Gary believes left the occupants thinking their seats were broken.

Gary says the man only removed his hands from the seats to eat and would ‘slam’ them back into place whenever the three passengers in front attempted to recline.

The software engineer said he wanted to tell the passengers on the front row about the man’s actions, but was unable to because they were asleep for the majority of the overnight flight, which had departed from Mexico at approximately 8.45pm.

Since sharing a clip of the man’s actions on Tik-Tok the video has gone viral, racking up more than 5million views, likes, shares and comments.