Brawling passengers delay departure of Chinese domestic flight for five hours
Five passengers including women who started the fracas are taken away by police, and at least one passenger is hurt before Hainan Airline’s flight has a chance to leave Beijing
Beijing airport police detained five passengers who were involved in a brawl on a Hainan Airlines flight from Beijing to Xian on Saturday night, which resulted in a flight delay of nearly five hours, the Beijing Youth Daily reports.
Several men and a woman were involved in the fight. Witnesses said the woman passenger started insulting flight attendants verbally because the flight was delayed while others tried to stop her.
A male passenger sitting next to the woman was the most severely injured, witnesses said.
In the beginning he tried to stop the woman but later he became the target and was attacked by several other male passengers.