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A video of the verbal spat between the agitated passenger and Chinese airport authorities has gone viral on social media with commenters mainly making light of the situation.

“Aiyo this is a budget airline. Can reach destination on time is good enough. Why must crew speak all languages?” one commenter said on Instagram.

Another wrote “her thought process ‘if I shout louder, this might all go away'”.

According to captions and comments on the video, the woman claimed to be a flight attendant for a Chine airline herself which did not go unnoticed by commenters.

“Ehhh she said she was a flight attendant at China Southern Airline…then why doesn’t she speak English? China Southern is an international airline too,” a commenter wrote.

A video uploaded by the South China Morning Post had led to 16,700 likes and 3,697 comments.

In the video, the passenger can be seen speaking in a loud voice demanding compensation after she alleged that the AirAsia air steward could not converse with her in Mandarin and that she demanded that everyone around her to delete videos of her.

The video also showed a group of passengers recording the incident, with many showing bemused expressions on their faces.

It is learnt that the woman was later removed from the AirAsia flight en route from Chongqing, China, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 22.

It said the woman, accompanied by her lawyer, came to its headquarters in Cyberjaya to have her statement recorded.

“We also seized a mobile phone and a SIM card suspected of being used to upload the content, to assist in the investigation.

“This action was taken under Section 248 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,” it said in a statement on Friday (April 24).

The case is being investigated under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, which provides for a maximum fine of RM500,000 or imprisonment of up to two years, or both, upon conviction, it said.

MCMC stressed that it takes a serious view of any misuse of social media platforms and digital channels to spread false information that could mislead the public.

“Firm enforcement action will be taken against any party found to have violated the law and undermined public order,” it added. – Bernama

Judge Norliza Othman acquitted Leong Eng Eng, 41, Lim Yon Hay, 40, and Mok Kum Loon, 41, after the court found that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case at the end of its case.

The court also allowed an application to withdraw the same charge against another man, Lim’s brother Lim Yon Loon, who died last year from tuberculosis.

According to the charge, all the accused conspired to murder Chow Tiam Hee, 41, in a house in Taman Anika, Sungai Udang here between 1.20am and 1.40am on Sept 15, 2022.

In her ruling on Friday (April 24), Norliza said the prosecution failed to prove that all the accused had conspired to murder in the incident, with no evidence from any prosecution witness confirming their conspiracy either directly or circumstantially.

“Leong was the deceased’s wife at the time of the incident…to prove she murdered him by inflicting fatal injuries, the prosecution needed more than just bloodstains on her clothes and trousers.

“The prosecution’s CCTV footage was rather blurry, except for Leong, the only woman in it, and showed nothing suspicious since she was at her own home,” she said.

Additionally, she said, the prosecution’s CCTV footage was inadmissible because they failed to produce a certificate under Section 90A of the Evidence Act 1950 to counter the defence’s claim that it was a computer-generated document.

Norliza said the prosecution only submitted a memory card seized by investigating officers, leaving no comparison with the original device to verify its authenticity.

“The prosecution produced RM2,600 seized from Lim, claiming it was payment money, but provided no evidence to back that up.

“From another angle, it is a weakness of the investigation by the investigating officers when there was no important recording, namely the struggle, to show that the suspects who fought with the deceased and injured him were all the accused,” Norliza said.

Consequently, she said investigators failed to probe the connections between all the accused, including who was at the house that night and their links to Leong.

“I rule that at the end of the prosecution’s case, they failed to establish a prima facie case against any of you on the murder charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, read with Sections 34 and 109.

“You three are therefore acquitted and discharged, with no need to defend yourselves on these charges,” she said.

The prosecution called 22 witnesses over the trial, which began in September 2023.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Ashiqin Zulkifli led the prosecution, while Datuk Mohd Daud Leong Abdullah represented interpreter Leong, with Tan Choon Hong acting for Lim and V. Ayasamy for Mok. – Bernama