Air rage on flights is on the rise with more travellers than ever becoming a threat to others, often forcing flights to divert.
In 2017, incidents with passengers rose 50 per cent with a third of the incidents involving intoxicated travellers.
However, passengers who see an event unfolding are advised against jumping in to help.
Former Head of Safety at Qantas, Professor Ron Bartsch, said it could result in being formally charged by the police as well.
He told 9news.com.au: "Don't take the law into your own hands.
"Because even in that, quite inadvertently, you may even be committing an offence in doing so."
Travellers should avoid the conflict unless asked by cabin crew for assistance.
According to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Guidance on Unruly Passenger Prevention report: "Management should be made clear by the cabin crew that they are to remain in charge and that ABPs (Able Bodied Passenger) should only act according to the directives provided by cabin crew members no matter their profession or rank.
"Cabin crew should never relinquish control of the cabin to either perpetrators or ABPs, even if they are airline employees or law enforcement officers."
Violent incidents can often occur on a flight, with flight attendant Carrie Bradley telling her own story of a terrifying experience which a male passenger was forced to help with.
She told Sun Online Travel: "A passenger was quite drunk and the crew at the back asked me to chat to him as someone senior.
"He suddenly collapsed so I went through the danger responses and as I went to check his airways, his hands grabbed up and grabbed around my neck unable to make a sound."
However, Carry praised the help from another passenger: "Luckily a male passenger was getting up to go to the loo and saw what was happening immediately.
"A few seconds later the male crew came back and had to restrain him."
A spokesperson for the UK Civil Aviation Authority told Sun Online Travel: "When [incidents] do occur, they can be highly disruptive and distressing for fellow passengers.
"It may also pose a flight safety risk. This type of behaviour is completely unacceptable."
On the CAA website, anyone who disrupts a flight could see fines of up to £5,000 as well as two years in prison.
Endangering an aircraft can be up to five years in jail and the offender could be forced to pay back the cost of the diversion, costing up to £80,000.
A British man has been forced to pay a £12,000 fine after forcing a WestJet flight to return after begin drunk and aggressive.
British Airways crew were forced to restrain a drunk man during a flight to Singapore after he tried to "punch passengers".
Sun Online Travel contacted Qantas for comment.
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