I'll never be able to sleep on a plane again (which is great since whenever I fly, it's cross-country).

Sick, sick, SICK:

BOSTON -- An Arizona executive was convicted on Tuesday of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman seated next to him on a flight from Dallas to Boston.
Deepak Jahagirdar, 55, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was convicted by a federal jury after a six-day trial and five hours of deliberations of sexually abusing and having abusive sexual contact with the 22-year-old woman.

Of course, he tried to claim it was consensual. Sleep always means, YES, doesn't it???

The woman, traveling alone and returning home from a vacation in Texas in March 2002, told authorities that she fell asleep early on the Delta Air Lines flight and awoke to find that Jahagirdar had covered her with a blanket, unbuttoned her pants and had his hand inside her.
The woman left her seat and alerted the flight crew. Jahagirdar, a marketing manager for a health care company, was arrested by Massachusetts State Police when the flight landed at Logan International Airport in Boston.

Jahagirdar's sentencing is set for June 24. He faces up to 20 years (for sexual abuse), three years (for abusive sexual contact) and a half-million dollar fine. He also faces the prospect of me cursing him violently whenever I have to stay awake during the long flight home to California.

:+:

UPDATE:

Though you easily might have breezed by it in your horror, the article quoted above states that the incident occurred in 2002, so that should resolve the confusion about the woman's age.

Some more information for you "Law and Order: SVU"-freaks. She confronted him:

``What the (expletive) are you doing?'' the medical secretary told jurors she said as she grabbed the man's forearm. ``He looked at me as if he had no idea what I was taking about.''...The woman, whose name is being withheld, said she tried to leave her row after the assault, but Jahagirdar would not put up his tray table. She pushed by and reported the incident to a flight attendant.

Also, the pervy HBS alum was even slimier than I thought:

The woman immediately pulled JAHAGIRDAR's hand from her pants, and fled to the rear of the aircraft where she reported the assault to the flight crew. The crew in turn alerted four United States Secret Service Agents who were on board the flight returning to Boston from an assignment in Texas.
Upon the flight's arrival in Boston, the plane was met by uniformed Massachusetts State Police. JAHAGIRDAR initially attempted to avoid law enforcement officers at Logan Airport, but was intercepted on the jetway. Subsequent testing of skin cells taken from JAHAGIRDAR's hands revealed that a significant quantity of the victim's DNA was present on his hands.

Like Abhi said...no more Nyquil on flights. :(