A man has been charged after allegedly verbally abusing and physical threatening a flight attendant before punching him in the face when the plane was about to taxi before take off in Alice Springs, NT Police said.

NT Police director of communications Mark Wilton said that about 10pm on Friday a commercial passenger flight was preparing to taxi for departure at Alice Springs Airport when a flight attendant identified a drunk passenger and directed him to move from the emergency exit row.

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