Quarrelling couple wrestle each other on runway causing flight to be delayed

A flight was delayed for nearly half and hour after a quarrelling couple started wrestling each other on the runway before take-off.

The husband and wife were filmed shouting at each other at the bottom of the steps leading onto China Eastern Airlines flight 5843, which was minutes away from leaving Changshui International Airport.According to staff at the airport in Kunming, capital of south-western China’s Yunnan Province, the pair beganraising their voices while standing in thequeue and then refused to board the 11am flight to Chengdu.

Airline staff were called to break up the fight between the couple, but footage shows the incident escalating until the pair begin to wrestle each other on the tarmac.The husband can be seen pinning his wife to the ground and swinging his fists in the direction of her face.

At one point, the husband even manages to lose his T-shirt after it is tugged off by his wife.

Kunming City authorities were eventually called and the couple were denied access to the plane when they eventually stopped fighting.Flight MU 5843 took off after a 28-minute delay and landed in Chengdu at 12:36pm local time.The unnamed couple have since been arrested and are now under investigation, with the police saying the pair were in the middle of a divorce.Metro.co.uk has contacted China Eastern Airlines for comment.