Punches were thrown as a group of Russian thugs staged a bloody mass fight on board a commercial flight at 36,000ft with cabin crew helpless.
A video shows frightened children as a noisy cabin bust-up erupted on a Fly Dubai plane.
One man was left with a bloody face and at least two were denied entry to the United Arab Emirates and sent back to Russia, according to reports.
The tourist flight was from Yekaterinburg to Dubai, with passengers including many men of military age seeking a sunshine break as war rages involving hundreds of thousands of Kremlin troops in Ukraine.
One thug is seen attacking another passenger in his seat as the tourists went on the rampage.
Another man in red sleeves joins the fray but is manhandled away from the fracas by a male passenger.
Children on the flight are clearly distressed by the ugly brawl with the crew helpless to stop the fighting.
Female passengers are heard seeking to calm the situation.
A man with a bloodied face is seen on the plane’s steps after the aircraft lands in Dubai following a five hour flight from Russia’s fourth largest city, in the Urals.
A report said that the fight erupted after one “drunken” passenger “insulted” another.
Dubai has become a major hub for Russian tourists but also wealthy escapees from their homeland as they seek to avoid the risk of being drafted into Putin’s army.
Many men especially in their 20s and 30s are vulnerable to an unofficial conscription underway in Russia, as Putin seeks to regain lost momentum in his disastrous war against Ukraine.
Hundreds of thousands of men have fled abroad rather than fight for Putin in an illegal war.
