A fight and an exchange of punches on an American passenger plane

A brawl erupted on an American Airlines plane, with two people exchanging punches before the flight attendants and other passengers intervened and separated them.

And the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, published a video of the altercation on the plane to Los Angeles before taking off from Georgia after a man attacked another passenger for putting something in the pocket of the back of his seat.

Police said Curtis Maurice Clayton, 30, of South Carolina, was arrested at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after starting an altercation with German Montez, 43, on Friday.

The video showed a man in a black jacket punching another wearing a blue jacket, before the flight attendants and other passengers intervened and separated them, according to Al-Marsad newspaper.

The man in the black jacket was hit in his left eye, as blood was bleeding from it, according to what appeared in the video clip.

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