A G4S guard has denied using a technique called "carpet karaoke" to restrain an Angolan deportee who died in his custody.
Terrence Hughes - along with two others - allegedly killed Jimmy Mubenga, who was handcuffed in a plane seat, after forcing his head down for 36 minutes.
The Old Bailey heard how the "carpet karaoke" method - which compresses the diaphragm and stops someone from spitting - was used by staff at the security company where Hughes worked before G4S.
The technique was later deemed to be "malpractice" by the firm.
However, Mark Dennis QC, prosecuting, asked 53-year-old Hughes whether he had ever used it.
He said: "We suggest that you and your colleagues were forcing Mr Mubenga forwards, holding him down, controlling him and maintaining that hold for as long as you could and as long as he resisted, you held him down."
Hughes told jurors that "he did not agree with it when I saw it, and I don't agree with it now" - adding that he preferred to "talk people down" during deportations.
The three guards allegedly ignored Mr Mubenga's cries of "I can't breathe" while he was restrained on the plane at Heathrow airport, prompting Mr Dennis to assert that Hughes was "a talker, not a good listener".
The 46-year-old suffered cardiac arrest and died at the scene.
Hughes, a former Navy serviceman, has told jurors that a "violent" struggle had ensued with Mr Mubenga, a married father, after he tried to disembark the plane in October 2010.
In earlier evidence, the guard claimed Mr Mubenga was "thrashing around" in his seat.
But the court heard how Hughes' only injury in the altercation was a 5mm graze - leading Mr Dennis to suggest that the incident was not as violent as he made it out to be.
Hughes, along with Colin Kaler and Stuart Tribelnig, deny manslaughter. The trial continues.
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