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Aeroplane safety is usually all about ensuring the aircraft is in working order, although they’re becoming riskier these days due to the chances of a potential clash on board.

There has yet again been a fight on a flight between a passenger and a flight attendant.

The brawl that occurred on the Tunisair flight in April had nothing on this bloody clash that happened on a Southwest Airlines flight on Sunday from Sacramento to San Diego.

The confrontations we see on South Africa’s aeroplanes are also mild in comparison.

The flight saw one of the flight attendants getting two of her teeth knocked out by an irate passenger, who was eventually removed from the plane and charged with a felony, reports The Independent.

The violent passenger was identified as Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, who seemed to have gone completely overboard when the flight attendant had to repeat the normal instructions that follow in-flight procedures.

Chris Mainz, a representative from the airline, said the passenger “repeatedly ignored standard inflight instructions and became verbally and physically abusive upon landing”.

Here’s footage of the moment the punch occurred:

An eyewitness shared her experience of the scuffle on Facebook:

“The flight attendant told her to keep her seat belt fastened while we were still moving. What I saw was the flight attendant in the front suddenly start screaming ‘No, No, No! Stop!’, and running toward the back,” Susan Marie Stidman wrote on the video she shared.

Stidman shared footage of Quinonez being escorted from the plane:

Mainz stated that police were called to the scene, who then arrested Quinonez and charged her with battery causing serious bodily harm.

Perhaps US airlines will start to take badly behaved customers more seriously, and make them face harsher punishments more frequently.

[source:independent]