Bizarre moment United Airlines passenger tries to destroy plane seat

This is the bizarre moment that a man was seen repeatedly kicking a seat on a plane before he was restrained and tied up by three other passengers.

The video was recorded on a United Airlines flight from Austin to Los Angeles on November 16. 

The individual can be seen holding both an aisle and exit row seat while kicking the chair in the middle with enough force to knock it back into the empty row behind. 

Wearing a dark jumper, grey sweatpants and white Nike trainers, the man continually uses his right foot to stamp on the seat. 

Video footage showed the same sequence of events occurring for around 25 seconds, before the clip ends with the man jumping on the seat in what appeared to be a final attempt to dismantle it. 

The reasons for why the man was acting in such a manner remain unclear. 

Following the incident, United Airlines confirmed that the individual had been banned from taking any further flights with the carrier. 

The clip was recorded by Gino Galofaro, who is based in San Diego, California and works as an addiction counsellor, says that he woke up to the activity and had to help restrain the man.

Gino, who runs addiction treatment service Hope Interventions, said: 'I woke up to him kicking the seat. The flight attendant walked by a couple times, nobody was doing anything.

'I restrained him and two other passengers were already getting zip ties so we zip tied his hands an feet and seat belted him to the seat. We were 40 minutes from LAX.

'Police came onboard when we landed.'

Gino adds that he hopes to be in communication with the man's family to see if he can offer any help.

United Airlines reported there were 76 passengers on the airplane with five crew.

A spokesperson said: 'On November 16, local law enforcement met United flight 502 upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport after a customer became disruptive.

'We thank our crew for helping address the situation and working to ensure the safety of everyone on board. We've banned this customer from future United flights.' 

It comes after passengers onboard an American Airlines flight were seen restraining a man sitting in first class who was allegedly violent with his female travel companion.

Video shared online shows several men leaning over a man seated in the first row of the flight from Miami, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday.

One sternly tells the passenger to take his hands off the woman sitting next to him as a female flight attendant tries to mediate.

'Do not f***ing touch her,' one man could be heard shouting in the passenger's face, before he apparently gave an inaudible excuse.

'I don't give a f***,' the man responds as the passenger argues that he took his hands off the woman. 'Look at me, you f***ed up, You don't f***ing touch her.'

At that point, a second man warns that the apparently handsy passenger would be arrested if he touched the woman again.

'Get your f***ing hands off of her right now,' he said. 'You touch her again, you're gonna get f***ing arrested, a**hole.'

The first man could then be seen asking the woman if she is OK, before the passengers tell her to move to another empty seat - away from her travel companion.

As she moved across the aisle, the alleged aggressor yells that he was the one who was assaulted by the woman - which she fiercely denied.

'No you weren't assaulted,' the woman shot back. 'I put my hand over your mouth to make you shut up.'

But the man held firm, screaming: 'You slapped me!'