This is the dangerous moment a dazed man aboard a flight to Minnesota lights up a cigarette and takes a puff - despite smoking being illegal on planes.
The man, wearing a dark polo and shorts, is filmed by a woman sitting in his row on the Minneapolis-bound Spirit Airlines flight at 8.30am on May 21.
She captures the moment the man lights up his cigarette, despite the concerned faces of passengers around him, shifts his body to get comfortable, and calmly closes his eyes.
A concerned passenger then flags down a flight attendant.
'Throughout the flight, I could hear him making loud outbursts. Roughly 40 minutes before we landed, he laid across the two seats with his butt towards me. He continued his loud outbursts and began aggressively flipping the tray open and closed, then he sat up,' the woman who filmed the video said.
'I saw him take the cigarettes and lighter out of his pocket. I pulled out my phone and started to record as he lit the cigarette. The man across from us became nervous and flagged the attendant down as I recorded,' she explained.
The attendant then comes over and wakes the man up and snatches the cigarette out of his hands.
'You cannot smoke on airplanes. It's against the law, you do know that, right?'
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