- A flight from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport was delayed after a passenger stopped it from taking off.
- The flight was delayed by half-an-hour after a woman lay down on the aerobridge.
- The woman demanded the flight wait for her daughter, who was still shopping in the duty-free zone of the airport.
- Spring Airlines said the passenger also tried to block the cabin manager from closing the door.
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A flight at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport was delayed by half an hour after one of its passengers lay down on the aerobridge to stop it from taking off.
According to the Bangkok Post, 160 passengers on board Shanghai-bound flight 9C8892 were left waiting as the woman demanded the plane wait for her daughter, who was still shopping at the duty-free zone of the airport.
A video clip of the incident taken by an eye-witness was uploaded onto Chinese video platform Douyin, and later shared on YouTube.
In the video, a flight attendant can be seen trying to explain the situation to visibly annoyed passengers, some of whom were questioning how the airline handled the matter.
At one point in the video, a figure can be seen seated on the aerobridge floor with an airline employee standing nearby.
The flight took off only after the pair agreed to switch to another flight. It eventually landed in Shanghai at 9:14am, more than an hour behind schedule.
Spring Airlines has confirmed the incident, the Daily Mail reported.
In its report, the Daily Mail quoted an airline spokesman as saying that an emotional passenger had claimed that her daughter had called the airport police to demand that the flight wait for her.
Calling her behavior "uncivilized", Spring Airlines, according to the Daily Mail report, said the passenger also tried to block the cabin manager from closing the door.