THE bosses of a high-flying East Lancashire businesswoman accused of performing sex acts with a fellow passenger during a transatlantic flight were today "reviewing" the incident.

Sales manager Amanda Holt, 37, of Moorside Crescent, Bacup, and David Machin, 40, of Woodland Road, Wakefield, were arrested as they left the club class cabin of the American Airlines flight AA 110.

Company director Mr Machin, a married father-of-three, has been suspended from his job at Hallmark Cards.

But today Amanda's bosses at Canadian telecoms firm Nortel said: "We are extremely concerned about this issue and are reviewing the alleged situation.

"The policy at Nortel is simply not to discuss any personnel issues publicly."

The pair, who were strangers when they boarded the 10-hour flight from Dallas to Manchester, allegedly became intimate after free drink in the club class section during the £4,000 return flight.

They were reported to have huddled under an airline blanket before Mrs Holt allegedly stripped down to her underwear and performed a sex act on her companion. The pilot radioed ahead with complaints of "lewd and drunken behaviour."

Mrs Holt, who married husband Steven, 43, in Accrington in October 1993 was today thought to be staying with a friend. Yesterday her husband was seen putting some black bin bags into his silver Vauxhall Astra after leaving the family home with his dog.

The pair have been charged with an act outraging public decency, being drunk on board an aircraft and abusive behaviour and will appear before Manchester magistrates on November 1.

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