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Richard Marx was right there when dramatic scenes unfolded on Korean Air flight

Rob Moran

Somehow, even in its waning days, 2016 keeps bringing the crazy.

Richard Marx, the chart-topping soft-rock power balladeer – a regular fixture on both early '90s radio and your mum's cassette collection, thanks to hits including Right Here Waiting and Hazard – has turned action hero, restraining a violent passenger on a Korean Air flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Seoul, South Korea.

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The singer and his wife, former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes, shared images of the dramatic incident on their social media accounts, calling the flight's crew "completely ill-equipped to handle the situation", which they say lasted for four hours and caused injury to two passengers and a crew member.

"The all female crew was clueless and not trained as to how to restrain this psycho and he was only initially subdued when I and a couple other male passengers intervened," Marx wrote on Facebook. 

"He then later easily broke his restraints and attacked more crew and another passenger.

"They didn't know how to use the Taser and they didn't know how to secure the rope around him (he got loose from their rope restraints three times)," Fuentes added.

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"I feel horrible for the abuse the staff had to endure but no one was prepared for this. They never fully got control of him."

 

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One picture shared by Marx shows the singer with rope strapped across his hands, as he prepared to personally tie down the irate passenger.

In his Facebook post, the singer slammed the airline, saying they "should be sanctioned for not knowing how to handle a situation like this without passenger interference."

Police arrested the man on landing in Seoul, according to reports.

Of course, bemused reactions – and countless puns – have flown in fast across social media.

Marx, who released his last album in 2014, actually still has a successful recording career when not beating down unruly travellers, including penning hits for Aussie Keith Urban.

The singer, who toured Australia for the first time in a decade this past June, was again in town last month shooting an odd promo for travel booking website Hotels Combined, riffing on his hit Right Here Waiting.