A China Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Taipei carrying 218 passengers and crew was diverted to the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung Wednesday after a passenger broke a window on the aircraft, the airline said.
Spokesman Bruce Chen said a male passenger broke the window with his arm after he had too much to drink.
Another China Airlines spokesman, Johnson Sun, said there was never any danger to the passengers or aircraft, an Airbus 330.
"The average window is double-layered, so safety will not be threatened," he said.
Sun did not specify where the window was, or how the passenger had managed to break it with his hand.
Chen said a stewardess was lightly injured in the incident.
He did not identify the passenger, but said he and his wife were being questioned by police in Kaohsiung.
Wang Tiao-huang, head of the criminal affairs division of the Kaohsiung airport police branch, said the passenger was a Vietnamese-American. Wang said he would be charged with endangering aviation safety for breaking an inside window on the aircraft.
Television pictures showed four police officers carrying the passenger, in his mid-20s, off the aircraft.
Chen said the flight, China Airlines 682, spent about two hours on the ground in Kaohsiung before continuing on to Taipei.
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