One person was arrested after a brawl broke out aboard a Southwest Airlines jet deplaning in Burbank after arriving from Dallas.
A statement from the Dallas-based air carrier on Tuesday said that the incident happened on Sunday aboard Flight 2530 during deplaning at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Los Angeles.
The fight involved three passengers aboard the Boeing 737. Southwest spokeswoman Alyssa Eliasen said police were summoned and one passenger was arrested, while another incurred minor injuries that didn't prevent further travel.
Here’s a video posted on Twitter by one of the passengers:
This brawl is the latest in a series of disturbances involving US airlines. Problems began last month with a cellphone video capturing a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight. Other horror stories from customers surfaced later involving flights of Delta and American airlines.
Then late on Monday, irate passengers swarmed ticket counters at the Fort Lauderdale airport after Spirit Airlines cancelled nine flights, blaming the decision on the pilot’s failure to show up. Some travellers started a near-riot at the Fort Lauderdale terminal as hundreds of travellers were left stranded.
Deputies arrested three people from New York in the Fort Lauderdale airport, charging them with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and trespassing.
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