Air rage woman is overpowered by male passengers and tied up in mid-air after demanding business class upgrade while grabbing her breasts yelling 'I'm in pain in my butt and my t*ts!
The unnamed passenger aboard a flight from St. Petersburg to Sharm el-Sheikh insisted that she needed greater comfort than her economy seat.
In an impassioned speech, the woman emphatically grabs her breasts as she shouts in broken English at an Aeroflot staff 'I'm in pain in my butt, I'm in pain in my t*ts'.
'I want business class,' she shouted at the implacable Russian crew aboard the six-hour flight.
'But I need a business class because I was working,' she pleaded in the video.
Her fury only heightens after they refuse her request and the crew ordered a beefy male passenger to help subdue her.
She sinks down and shouts: 'No, no, get out!' while a female voice is heard saying: 'You asked for it.'
The 'unruly woman' fought on as she was roughly bundled into an economy class seat and tied up by the male passengers, it was reported by reported Aviatorshchina channel.
'Eyewitnesses said she screamed, not understanding why she wasn't being let into business class.'
The report stated: 'The stewardesses first tried to manage on their own, but the brawler wouldn't give in.
'After she was restrained, the violator was moved to the back of the plane and handed over to the police upon arrival.'
The incident was on flight SU734 today on an Airbus A330-300.
The woman's identity and nationality was not reported.
Aeroflot has not commented on the incident.
The incident follows a string of similar outbursts aboard flights this summer, with one incident taking place last week.
A 'feral' Brit was captured attempting to provoke another passenger on a chaotic 'flight from hell' to Ibiza.
The altercation reportedly occurred on Jet2 flight LS1181 from Birmingham after the pilot delayed takeoff by around two-and-a-half hours.
Originally scheduled to depart at 6.15pm, holidaymakers were not allowed on board until around 7pm only to be told that there would be further delays.
One passenger who witnessed the incident unfold says it was at this point that the flight began to go 'feral'.
CJ Edwards posted on TikTok to explain that the passenger, who can be seen in footage wearing a green outfit, decided to drink a bottle of vodka in '10 seconds', resulting in him later screaming in the faces of flight attendants.
He was also seen throwing items of clothing at another passenger in the video, which raised tensions before others on board stepped in.
Mr Edwards said: 'People were drinking and doing all sorts, and what I want to say is that it wasn't just him.
'There were a lot of things going on. There was a fight on the plane, someone got slapped, someone was sick in the aisles. My friend had sick on his shoe. People were passing drinks over each other.
'There was a lot going on. So when we got on the flight and told we can't move, the guy took his bottle of Ciroc out that he'd got from duty free and, I'm not lying, he's guzzled it down in about 10 seconds.'
And last Monday, an entitled plane passenger was caught having a drunk meltdown after she was forced to 'sit next to a f***ing fat lady' on a cross-country flight.
The 32-year-old repeatedly pulled another female passenger's hair, spat in her face and kicked her on a Southwest Airlines plane at LaGuardia Airport in New York en route to Kansas City early Monday morning.
Several clips also showed the woman screaming at the unidentified passenger over her weight and clothing.
The 'intoxicated passenger' who donned long black hair, a red baseball hat and an all-black outfit, appeared to get verbally confrontational with the other woman just moments before things turned physical.
She then gripped the other woman's hair and screamed: 'Shut the f*** up, don't f***ing touch me!'
Several people then stepped in, including two Southwest employees and another passenger, seemingly trying to de-escalate the situation.
A female employee then called another staff member on the phone and repeatedly asked the woman to let go of the other passenger's hair, but she refused to and flashed a cunning smile.
'I'm not even touching her hair b****,' the unhinged passenger replied while she hung onto the woman's hair and grinned.
A traveler who recorded the intense scene told Daily Mail the woman was so aggressive she even 'knocked the glasses off the southwest employee.'
'When she first started saying stuff I called out "why don't you be nice?" She turned around and called me ugly a few times and that I could never get a boyfriend or have sex. I looked at her and said I've been married for almost 20 years lady,' the passenger recalled.
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