Passenger destroys plane's overhead panel while trying to stow his bag

Passengers on a Cathay Pacific plane bound for Bangkok, Thailand were delayed by three hours when a fellow traveller damaged the plane’s interior before take-off.

The unnamed passenger, reported to be from Hong Kong, was trying to find a space to stow his luggage overhead on the new Airbus A350 and began pulling at the panels.

And despite staff telling him that there were no overhead lockers above his seat and that they would find a space for his bag, he persisted.