Chinese Couple, Throwing Hot Water And Threatening to Blow Up The Plane Force Return To Bangkok

Charles Liu

BANGKOK: -- Raucous behavior by some Chinese passengers on-board a Thai airliner from Bangkok to Nanjing resulted in some tense moments for passengers and a return to Don Mueang Airport in the Thai capital.

Witnesses on Air Asia flight 9101 say a man threatened to blow up the plane and his girlfriend told other passengers she wanted to commit suicide, which led to the decision to turn around. But the couple, in their 20s, had been drawing attention to themselves for a while by that point.

The couple loudly objected when they discovered they were not sitting together, which happened because they were part of a tour group and were seated in alphabetical order. A flight attendant fixed the situation and found seats for them together, but they still complained loudly.

Then in flight, the woman bought a bowl of instant noodles from the flight attendants and asked for boiling water. When she got it, she splashed it on the flight attendant.

During the fracas that followed, the man threatened to blow up the plane as his girlfriend threatened to kill herself. Passengers say dinner cutlery was used in the melee. The couple finally calmed down once other passengers became involved.

After arriving back in Bangkok, police entered the plane and took the couple away.

Source: http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/troublesome-chinese-couple-forces-air-asia-plane-to-return-to-bangkok/

--The Nanfang Insider 2014-12-12

Quality Tourists

They say people in alphabetical order, rather than in family groups or based on relationships?

I assume this was the tour company's doing rather than the airlines.

Edited December 13, 201411 yr by Bluespunk

Hopefully took them away for a <deleted> good hiding!

Thai flight forced to return by unruly Chinese passengers

Bangkok | AFP |

A low-cost flight carrying passengers from Thailand to China was forced to return to Bangkok after a Chinese passenger threw hot water at a cabin attendant, the airline said Saturday.


Thai AirAsia Flight FD9101 departed Bangkok's northern airport Don Mueang for Nanjing at 5:55 pm on Thursday with 174 passengers and six crew on board but was forced to turn back after one of the passengers attacked a steward.


"During the flight a Chinese female passenger was not satisfied with the service and when the cabin attendant came she threw hot water at the cabin attendant," the airline said in statement.


An official said the woman and her travelling companion were initially angered at not being seated together. Other passengers moved seats allowing them to sit side by side but the pair started to argue with each other before the attack took place.


The captain of the flight, which was still in Thai airspace at the time, decided to return to Don Mueang where four Chinese passengers were ejected and detained at a police station.


The flight departed Don Mueang again at 10:45 pm on the same day and arrived in Nanjing Friday morning.


The airline official said police fined the Chinese passengers, adding that they left the country on Friday.


The cabin attendant received first aid on board from colleagues and was now fine, the official added.


China has seen rapid growth in outbound trips in recent years, and Chinese travellers are now the biggest source of international tourism cash in the world, according to a the United Nations World Tourism Organization.


But the behaviour of some Chinese tourists overseas has caused embarrassment at home.


In May 2013 a Chinese tourist was tracked down by furious netizens after it emerged he had defaced an ancient Egyptian monument.


The same month a top Chinese official said the dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists overseas were harming the country's image.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-12-13

I hoe they got the sh*t kicked out of them and I hope any Thai passengers on board got stuck in a threw a few punches

Scum like this should not be tolerated anywhere

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Hopefully took them away for a <deleted> good hiding!

Hopefully, they will extended tour inside thai jail

I have had to put up with this behaviour on airasia Bangkok to Macau . The route to Macau from Thailand seems to allow PRC Chinese a way to bypass visa requirements that are in place on the land crossings or flights from China . Anyway , they are nuts . The redeye monday morning express was always full of crew cutted mobsters who were escorting large groups of young women . Noisy morons delaying the take off by fighting over who sits where on an airasia flight is a nightmare , as if it wasn't bad enough .

Send them to the CIA torture prison posthaste!

Air Asia might need to rethink its advertising slogan:

"Now everyone can fly"

Throwing boiling water over a flight attendant, threatening to blow up a plane... so fined and put on the next plane out. Lucky then they weren't charged with anything more serious like selling second hand dvd's...

Another instant noodles & chinese-story just born?

I suppose the couple hadn't noticed the new laws regarding airline traffic - I'd recall there were news recently they could now face death penalty - good luck with that crap.

Air Asia has a knack for eliciting this kind of behaviour. Some of Air Asia's policies need to be changed. They call you esteemed client but treat you like S#@$t.

Bill them for the cost of the diverted flight and don't let them out of jail until they pay

It doesn't say what the fine was but I wonder if there was an element of ' protecting ' future Chinese tourism in the figure.

i sincerely hope they were added to the international airlines blacklist which could mean they might have difficulty booking a flight again.

According to the other paper No Charges.

Threatening to blow up an airplane is crime...i wonder what the thai authorities and Airasia are doing about it....

Aircraft should be fitted with ejection capsules for people like this. No chair, no chute. Just the people are ejected. It would be a genetic improvement to humanity.

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Hopefully took them away for a <deleted> good hiding!

Hopefully, they will extended tour inside thai jail

They will not do time in a Thai prison. The existing prisoners have standards and these cretins are not good enough to get in.

Don't care what the Aussies, Brits, Russians or Yanks get up to in Thailand, the Chinese are the lowest of low in "quality" tourists.

Air Asia has a knack for eliciting this kind of behaviour. Some of Air Asia's policies need to be changed. They call you esteemed client but treat you like S#@$t.

Seriously? You're blaming Air Asia policies for eliciting criminal, rude and disgusting passenger behaviour. I guess if these passengers had been responsible for the plane crashing, it would have been Air Asia's fault. You should consider a career as a criminal defence lawyer. Bright future.

Bill them for the cost of the diverted flight and don't let them out of jail until they pay

The airline official said police fined the Chinese passengers, adding that they left the country on Friday.......

"The same month a top Chinese official said the dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists overseas were harming the country's image."

Well, reflecting it anyway.

Why were 4 passengers removed when the reports say it was just a couple causing the problems?

Edited December 13, 201411 yr by Bluespunk

They say people in alphabetical order, rather than in family groups or based on relationships?

I assume this was the tour company's doing rather than the airlines.

I was on a flight with a Chinese tour group once, they were continuously changing seats to visit one another. That's when I knew "Chinese fire drill" was more than an expression.

many can be loud and obnoxious and Chiang Mai is inundated with them frankly they should be in jail for at least a week and forbidden to come back on top of a hefty fine (100k at least)

Edited December 13, 201411 yr by binjalin

Aircraft should be fitted with ejection capsules for people like this. No chair, no chute. Just the people are ejected. It would be a genetic improvement to humanity.

Nah include the chair, that way they can eject em without warning

Feel sorry for the attendant who got splashed by these ridiculous nutheads with the boiling water...

Some Chinese on the train from butterworth to BKK (which arrived this a.m) were so loud a monk eventually spoke to them!

Working in tourism in Australia, the Chinese were well known for being the worst behaved nationality we encountered, bar none. Basically, rude arrogant and unreceptive.

Bring back those polite, compliant Japanese tourists!

Edited December 13, 201411 yr by simondan

Some Chinese on the train from butterworth to BKK (which arrived this a.m) were so loud a monk eventually spoke to them!

Did the monk slap them about ?

Air Asia has a knack for eliciting this kind of behaviour. Some of Air Asia's policies need to be changed. They call you esteemed client but treat you like S#@$t.

I think you need to get out more, calling customers esteemed clients is nothing more than a marketing ploy designed to make customers feel valued and important