THIS is the shocking moment a passenger bites the ear of a flight attendant during a mid-air brawl.

Shocking footage shows the woman attacking the flight attendant who was forced to intervene when a fight between the two passengers became out of control.

The footage shows horrified passengers and flight attendants trying to break up a fight between two passengers.

Both passengers were sitting on the same row when one of the women reportedly became irritated by the body odour and the smell of perfume of the other, triggering a fight.

Two men in the row behind can be seen attempting to help the flight attendants who desperately tried to calm the situation.

One of the cabin crew members was allegedly bitten on the arm by one of the women, and another passenger was also scratched.

Both of the women were taken away by police.

The plane was set to take off from Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport and was headed for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in China.

The flight departed two hours late, and Shenzhen Airlines has launched an investigation.

This follows a recent clash between two passengers over a reclined seat while on a busy flight to Bali.

The pair got into a heated argument before attempting to get physical with one another.

A shocking mid-air argument also took place after a boy watching The Karate Kid saw a passenger bust-up at 30,000ft and emergency diversion.

The easyJet pilot decided to land after two families came to blows.

A few months before, a drunken brawl erupted on a plane with a man biting another passenger and trying to claw out his eyes.

The Jet2 flight was on its way to Leeds from from Antalya, Turkey, when chaos broke out onboard between the two wasted men.

In November, an airline safety instructor was wrestled to the ground after sparking a mid-air brawl.

The flight to Moscow was forced into an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk after passengers got involved in restraining the “drunk” thug.