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Shocking footage shows an angry traveller unleashing a violent attack on a check-in machine at Gold Coast Airport.
The man is seen slamming a metal garbage bin into the machine in a fit of rage before he was wrestled to the ground by bystanders.
One of the four men who intervened claimed airport security and police were slow to react to the terrifying incident.
'There was no security around there - that was the thing that was a bit scary,' a man known only as Deano told 2GB Radio.
'It was at least five or six minutes before the police actually turned up (and) nobody from the airport came in.
'This guy was going off, I couldn't understand what he was saying... I just ran in. I didn't even think about it.'
The heavily outnumbered man continued to struggle, despite having four men holding him down.
'He kept resisting and he just kept screaming and mumbling. It was a language nobody's every heard of before. We didn't know what was going on.'
Gold Coast Airport released a statement acknowledging the incident.
'Australian Federal Police provides a first response role regarding security incidents at Gold Coast Airport,' the statement read.
'The airport takes security and the safety of passengers and staff seriously and is working with AFP as the matter is investigated.'
The Australian Federal Police said a 29-year-old man was detained at the scene after reports he was 'damaging property and threatened an individual'.
'The safety of the travelling public at major airports remains a key priority for the AFP,' a spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
'Further investigations in relation to this matter are ongoing.'