Now you can add a naked man running around the airfield to a long list of potential problems that could affect your flight.

A naked man managed to breach security and went on a drug-fueled run across the airport apron at Nanchang Airport in Jingxi province last Thursday evening, forcing a plane from Guangzhou to u-turn back to Baiyun.

The man’s reason for the run? He was upset after a row with his family.

Needless to say he was too close to the airport runway for the liking of airport bosses and flights were suspended for an hour, affecting nearly a dozen flights in the peak of the big Spring Festival getaway.

Shanghai Daily has this:

The intruder, who had been taking drugs, was caught at 10:44pm, authorities said.

The man was a villager living nearby and just had a quarrel with his family, a preliminary investigation showed.

The man was fined and detained for 20 days yesterday because he illegally crossed the airport perimeter, as well as taking drugs, authorities said.

China Daily adds:

The airport’s management authority decided to suspend operations for safety reasons.

The man was found squatting in a ditch an hour later.

This is not the first security incident of its kind. A similar case has occurred at the airport before:

An elderly villager was detained for five days after he illegally crossed fences at the airport in October. He said he just wanted to see the aircraft up close.

Serious breaches have occurred at Guangzhou and Shanghai, two of China’s biggest airports, after bad weather causing delays forced passengers to take matters into their own hands last year.

However, this embarrassing episode raises serious doubts over current security arrangements in place across China’s airports with the apparent ease of getting on to an airfield.

Adam Minter makes an excellent point.

@journodannyasia and those are the ones we hear about! imagine what’s happening at small airports that don’t make the press.

— Adam Minter (@AdamMinter) February 16, 2013

Image: Danny Lee