Woman arrested after wild pre-flight Virgin freakout in Perth

Video has captured a woman causing a wild scene and abusing airline staff on a Virgin flight, with the ruckus kicking off for a truly bizarre reason.

A 28-year-old Perth woman has been removed from a Virgin flight bound for Melbourne after starting a verbal altercation with airline staff.

Australian Federal Police were called to a flight waiting to leave Perth Airport at around 2:50pm on Friday after a woman began to act erratically on the outbound plane, which had yet to depart its gate.

Footage shows the woman verbally accosting a flight attendant, apparently over a disagreement revolving around her possession of a “bum bag”.

“You’re telling me to take my clothes off on a plane, f*** off,” says the woman in the footage, directing her vitriolic barrage towards a flight attendant standing in the aisle.

An unruly passenger was escorted off a Perth flight after abusing flight attendants and causing a scene over being asked to remove a bum bag. Picture: 7News

“No I didn’t say that … you had a bum bag on, in the event of an evacuation we need to make sure you’re safe and everyone else is safe,” the attendant replies calmly.

Another member of the crew then ushers the attendant away, before staff tell the woman the AFP will “deal with” her.

It is understood the woman was removed from the plane before it departed.

An AFP spokesperson said officers escorted the passenger off the plane after she was “allegedly disruptive and abusive towards cabin crew”.

“The Perth woman was spoken to and removed from the plane without incident,” the spokesperson said.

The woman will be issued with a summons to appear in court at a later date.

Originally published as Woman arrested after wild pre-flight Virgin freakout in Perth