兩名中國男子機上鬥毆 迫使瑞航班機返航

A VIOLENT fight between two passengers forced a plane carrying 200 people from Zurich to Beijing to turn back at the weekend after more than six hours in the air, the airline Swiss said.

"The two passengers were handed over to the police of the canton of Zurich after the Airbus A340 landed Sunday evening,'' Mehdi Guenin, spokesman for the airline, said.

According to the online edition of Swiss-German daily Blick, the two passengers were Chinese citizens, aged 27 and 57.

They are set to be interrogated by police today.

The plane was just east of Moscow when the pilot decided to turn it around, according to the spokesman, who said the pilot had opted to head back to Zurich instead of making an emergency landing in Moscow to avoid administrative difficulties.

Swiss put up the plane's 200 passengers at a Zurich hotel, before placing them on Beijing flights with other companies, since its own flight to the Chinese capital was already fully booked.

A spokesman for Zurich police said alcohol had played a role in the fight.

【新聞快訊】

據法新社報道，由於機上兩名男乘客鬥毆，2日晚瑞士國際航空公司（Swiss International Air Lines Ltd.）一架從蘇黎世飛往北京的客機被迫返航。該機搭載了200名乘客，當時已經飛行6個多小時。

瑞士國際航空發言人表示，這架空中客車A340客機安全降落蘇黎世後，兩名旅客被警方帶走。而據瑞士媒體報道，這兩名乘客爲中國人，分別爲27歲和57歲。4日警方將對他們進行訊問。

鬥毆事件發生時，客機已經位於莫斯科東部上空。出於飛行安全考慮，以及因多數乘客可能沒有俄羅斯簽證而難以安排住宿等事宜，機長決定返航。客機返航後，瑞士國際航空公司爲機上其他旅客安排好住宿，併爲他們預定了3日前往北京的機票。