After a week of major safety hiccups at Tan Son Nhat Airport, a slightly less serious disturbance took place last Friday night when two female passengers engaged in a soap opera-like brawl over a male passenger.
In what must have been a horrible coincidence, a married couple was sat directly next to the husband's ex-lover on a Vietnam Airlines flight from HCMC to Hanoi.
Predictable results ensued.
Minutes before the aircraft took off, the two women began a verbal altercation which soon escalated into a physical one, characterized by face slaps and shoe beatings.
A group of passengers and flight attendants tried to quell the fight, but it wasn’t until an airport security team boarded the plane that the skirmish ended.
After leaving the plane, security interviewed the trio and learned that the man and his ex-lover had two children before he left to marry his current wife.
The two women were fined VND7.5 million each for their actions.
Fate is a fickle mistress.
