Four women were detained on Monday after they became involved in a violent altercation aboard a domestic Chinese flight.
Chaos broke out in the economy class cabin of Shenzhen Airlines flight ZH9724 from Dalian, Liaoning Province to Shenzhen after about half an hour in the air. Two female passengers seated in row 19 of the aircraft leaned their chairs all the way back, angering the two women seated behind them in row 20.
The row 20 pair asked the ladies in front to readjustment their seats back to the upright position, but no dice. According to reports, they addressed each other in terms that were "not very good-natured."
Flight attendants stepped up to simmer tensions and for a moment the two sides seemed to cool down. Five or six minutes later, however, it all kicked off again. By the time cabin crew rushed back, the four were already "grappling." According to fellow passengers, it was the women in row 20 who threw the first punch.
When the flight made a scheduled stopover in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, the four were removed from the aircraft by airport police and placed under administrative detention, where they will remain for the rest of the week as punishment for endangering the safety of everyone on board the plane.
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After these unsavory elements were removed from ZH9724, the flight subsequently reached its destination safely.
In December last year, a violent brawl between two groups of passengers broke out aboard flight CA433 from Chongqing to Hong Kong when passengers in one row complained that a child sitting behind them was too loud.
Within the past week, a renowned painter from Chinese mainland was fined in a Hong Kong court for throwing a cup of coffee at a Cathay Pacific flight attendant (and then blaming the airline for "lacking Chinese morals") and a West Air passenger hurled steaming soup at a stewardess when he didn't want to pay for his meal.
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[Images via Oriental Daily]
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