It was a fight before a flight.
Onlookers captured the wild moment when an enraged passenger punched an worker at an airport in Malaysia.
The altercation was sparked by a check-in issue at Terminal 1 of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Nov.10, in line with a report from Viral Press.
“The incident stemmed from a misunderstanding between the 2 after the passenger was late in the course of the checking-in process,” District Police Chief Assistant Commissioner Azman Shariat told the Star while relaying the dramatic scene. “This then led to a fight.”
Within the dramatic footage, the passenger in green is seen raining punches upon the gound worker in front of the check-in counter.
Finally, a security guard separates the 2, after which the shaken staffer shouts and points on the flyer while he’s being escorted away.
Azman Shariat said the employee was “barely injured” in the course of the scuffle, but no arrests have been made to this point.
This incident joins an extended line of assaults by incensed passengers on aviation employees of late.
Earlier this month, an intoxicated Russian plane passenger was filmed attacking a flight attendant after which lunging at a police officer when she was detained on arrival, causing her child to cry.
In an incident closer to home in August, an outraged passenger threw a pc monitor at Frontier Airlines employees at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport over a missed flight.
Perhaps the wildest instance of passenger-on-employee assault occurred in 2021 when California’s Brian Hsu punched an American Airlines flight attendant, breaking her nose.
