(NEWSER) – Apparently, there's a Mile-High Fight Club, too. A half-hour brawl broke out among as many as 12 British vacationers aboard a Virgin flight from England to Barbados, reports the Daily Mail. The passengers—dressed for "a special occasion" and believed to have been intoxicated—had to be separated by other fliers and crew. A witness says the trouble started about halfway through the eight-hour flight, as a woman apparently took offense to another passenger's use of profanity.

"A woman shouted, 'You swore in front of my child,'" says a witness. "She said it about six times, each louder than the last one. She said, 'And it's my birthday.' Before I knew it they were throwing punches and jumping on each other. It was vicious. It was frightening. There were punches going off in all directions." It took 30 minutes to get things under control, after which all passengers were ordered to stay in their seats for the remainder of the flight—with bathroom breaks after two hours. Police greeted the brawlers, one of whom reportedly had a black eye, upon arrival in Barbados.

Here's another one:It can be annoying when the passenger in front of you moves his seat all the way back—but smacking him in the head isn't the answer. That's what sparked a fight between two passengers on a United Airlines flight to Ghana, and convinced a concerned pilot to make an emergency return to Washington DC's Dulles airport—shadowed by a pair of fighter jets.



A flight attendant and another passenger tried to stop the brawl while the pilot turned back because he was unsure of the scope of the problem, sources tell the Washington Post. The 767 was forced to fly around in circles for around 25 minutes to burn off enough fuel to be able to land safely. Police officers met the unruly passengers on arrival, but decided against pressing charges.