Footage of a grim incident on a flight in China shows the moment a woman was attacked after she complained about a child repeatedly kicking her chair
Grim video footage shows the moment a woman on a plane was attacked by a family after complained a child was kicking her seat.
Reports indicate the family surrounded the woman during the China Southern Airlines flight CZ6164 on August 7. They said she should have been more empathetic to the youngster because “he’s only a child” after she complained her seat was being persistently kicked despite multiple warnings during the nearly four hour flight from Shenzhen to Dalian.
According to reports, the boy deliberately bumped into her as she was walking down the aisle, causing her headphones to crash to the floor.
In footage, the woman can be heard shouting for the police to be called and “you’re going too far” as she is pulled to the ground a shoved. A member of the child’s family can be hear shouting “he’s just a child” and “can’t you be more understanding?”.
Witnesses said the boy’s older sister and parents joined in the assault, the Mail reported. The boy’s father shoved her and his mother shouted at her, reports say, and the sister pulled the passenger’s hair.
Other passengers and crew tried to stop the altercation, but were pushed aside and the woman remained on the floor with her belongings.
Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport confirmed the incident, which was also acknowledged by China Southern Airlines. The airline said members of the crew onboard the flight helped to manage the situation.
The police were also called and the incident is now under investigation by the Dalian Airport Public Security Bureau.
It comes after a flight was forced to divert after a man allegedly began attacking others onboard with a belt and shouted racial slurs.
Breeze Airways Flight MX704 was heading to Los Angeles from Norfolk, Virginia, in the US on Wednesday when chaos suddenly broke out. A man was allegedly “yelling racist slurs at airline staff while waving a skateboard” while drunk, according to a statement from the Grand Junction Police Department in Colorado.
The flight, which had departed Norfolk at 9:17am on Wednesday, had to be diverted to Grand Junction Regional Airport after the disruption onboard broke out. After he shouted the alleged slurs, staff restrained the man as an emergency landing was arranged.
But he broke free and began hitting people close by with a “waist belt”. Reports say fellow passengers had to hold him down as the plane landed.
Footage from a passenger shows a handcuffed and agitated man being escorted off the plane by officers. He was taken into custody at the direction of the FBI and escorted to the Mesa County Detention Facility.
Passengers eventually arrived in Los Angeles around eight hours after they were expected to.