Flight attendants fight? No, a tiff. Jet still returns to airport.

Flight attendants fight ? verbally, anyway ? causing a United plane to return to Raleigh and the flight attendants replaced. United to pay passengers for inconvenience.

By Associated Press / September 27, 2012

A United Airlines plane takes off at Newark Liberty International airport in Newark, N.J., last month. A squabble ? originally reported as a fight ? between flight attendants caused a United flight to return to Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday.

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An airport official says a squabble between two?flight?attendants?forced a United Airlines?flight?bound for Chicago to return to Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

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Airport spokeswoman Mindy Hamlin says?Flight?1214 left Raleigh at 6 a.m. Wednesday. She says a call from the pilot to the tower at 6:40 a.m. suggested there had been a fight onboard, but it turned out to be a tiff between?flight?attendants.

Raleigh-Durham police determined that no blows were exchanged and no one was arrested.

United spokeswoman Christen David says the two employees were removed and the?flight?re-staffed. David said the Chicago-based airline is conducting an internal review and that the argument was not physical.

Some passengers were placed on other?flights, and David said United would compensate passengers for their inconvenience.

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