By Tracy You For Mailonline
Published: 13:35 BST, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 13:39 BST, 15 May 2019
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An air passenger from China has sparked an outrage on an international flight after allegedly making 160 passengers wait for her daughter who was late due to a shopping spree.
The emotional passenger tried to prevent the cabin crew from shutting the plane door for takeoff while other travellers were stuck on the aircraft, accused a furious traveller on board.
Footage posted by the eyewitness shows the mother sitting on the jet bridge outside the aircraft as an airline worker talked to her.
Footage trending on Chinese social media shows cabin crew trying to calm down travellers stranded on the plane after one passenger insisted that the plane wait for her daughter
Clips of the incident were trending on Chinese short-video platform Douyin today.
The uploader of the videos, known as 'da meng ya', claimed to be a passenger on the plane.
She alleged that one female passenger was attempting to stop the plane from leaving because her daughter had not arrived yet. The daughter was said to be late because she was shopping.
The incident took place today on a flight from Bangkok