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Crying baby sparks mid-air brawl on Air China flight

(PIX11) - A crying baby reportedly started a mid-air brawl that almost caused an Air China flight to make an emergency landing.

The trouble aboard Flight 433 from Chongqing to Hong Kong all started when two women seated in from of 27-year-old Chan Juan Sung thought her baby was crying too loudly and she wasn't doing enough to stop it.

When Sung didn't respond in the way the women hoped, the pair reclined their seats all the way back.

The ensuing brawl resulted in one of the women getting punched in the face and the pilot threatening to land the plane.

"They were fighting, the baby was now screaming and other passengers were shouting. It was like some bizarre film," a witness told the Daily Mail.

The plane landed at its scheduled time and police interviewed the passengers involved in the scuffle were interviewed by polive.

"Passengers cannot behave like this," an Air China spokesman told the website.