A tiara-wearing Manhattan art curator on a flight from Istanbul to JFK tried to bite a fellow passenger who objected to her spreading out across several seats, federal officials said.
Stacey Engman, 38, a National Arts Club member, was nearly resting her head in the lap of the other passenger on the Turkish Airlines flight when the woman finally had enough and objected, Brooklyn court papers state.
“Engman was … wearing a tiara and told anyone who would listen she had been on a yacht for five days,” according to court papers.
After the fellow passenger bristled, Engman began to raise and lower the adjustable armrest into the woman’s leg before launching into a stream of insults.
When the other woman told her to cool it and turned away, Engman bit her on the backside, according to a criminal complaint.
A Port Authority officer spoke to a witness who said Engman “was aggressive from the beginning of the flight,” according to a complaint.
The victim declined medical attention after EMTs saw her skin wasn’t broken.
Engman was issued a summons for assault.
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