article_snippet.sent: A mid-air altercation over legroom turned into a brawl on a flight from London Heathrow to Oman, after one passenger allegedly attacked another with a shoe.
article_snippet.sent: However, a fellow passenger objected to the man moving near to one man and a row broke out.
article_snippet.sent: Passengers were forced to intervene after the argument escalated into a full-blown fight on board.
article_snippet.sent: The Irish Mirror reports that one of the men involved threw punches at the other, and also took of one man shoe to use as a weapon in the scuffle.
article_snippet.sent: One passenger screamed that there was a baby nearby, while others were woken from others sleep by the commotion.
article_snippet.sent: It really was a really nasty incident,' one passenger told Irish Mirror . '
article_snippet.sent: One guy completely lost the plot and started throwing several punches.
article_snippet.sent: It's not the first time a row over passengers' space has caused problems mid-flight.
article_snippet.sent: Last year three incidents in one week saw three plane diversions in a period that became known as 'legroom wars'.
article_snippet.sent: so A woman could knit, but the person behind was trying to sleep on the table, and the two became engaged in a bitter argument.
article_snippet.sent: The issue of space on planes remains a key issue and means rows and disagreements are common .
article_snippet.sent: The male passenger, Edmund Alexandre, of France, continued to be disruptive when a crew member tried to calm a crew member, following a crew member down the aisle and grabbing a crew member arm.
article_snippet.sent: And a few days prior to this, a fight started on a United Airlines flight when a male passenger resorted to using a Knee Defender, a $21 gadget designed to prevent the person in front from reclining.
article_snippet.sent: When it emerged that the man in the seat behind had attached a Knee Defender, A female passenger asked a member of cabin crew to remove the man in the seat behind had attached a Knee Defender.
article_snippet.sent: the man in the seat behind refused, saying that the man in the seat behind would no longer be able to work on the man in the seat behind laptop, and the situation escalated, with the woman hurling a glass of water in the man in the seat behind.
highlights_snippet.sent: However, the move angered a fellow passenger who spoke out .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Row turned into fight, as passenger reports punches thrown .
  