A Party official of the Yuexiu district government in Guangzhou was suspended from his post on Sunday following suspicions that he had a physical altercation with a flight attendant, the People's Daily reported.

Authorities of the Yuexiu district said that Fang Daguo, 41, the political commissar for the Yuexiu District Armed Forces Department, is being investigated.

Fang allegedly grabbed the flight attendant's arm on Wednesday night after he and his wife boarded a China Southern Airlines flight from Hefei, Anhui province, to Guangzhou, Guangdong province.