Plane returns to airport after passengers fight

A Saudia flight en route from Egypt to Saudi Arabia returned to Cairo airport after a fight erupted between two passengers over a cigarette.

Flight 333 has just taken off and headed for the Saudi capital Riyadh when the scuffle broke out between two Egyptian and Saudi passengers.

“The fight erupted after the Saudi passengers snatched a cigarette from the Egyptian…the pilot returned to Cairo where the two passengers were ordered out of the plane…it took off 45 minutes later,” Sabq daily said.