Flight attendants praised for breaking up a fistfight on San Francisco-bound EVA Air flight

By Lilit Marcus and Wayne Chang | CNN

Three flight attendants are winning praise for successfully defusing a physical fight between two passengers on board an EVA Air flight.

In a statement to CNN, the airline said the scuffle began when a passenger was reportedly coughing and the man next to him tried to move into another seat to get away. However, the man’s attempt to swap seats didn’t work, as the seat he chose already belonged to another male passenger. Those two men then got into an argument over the seat...