What happens when an angry Chinese official misses his flight? Say goodbye to your computers, your telephone and your airport signs.

The man, identified as Yan Linkun, a member of China's top level government advisory board CPPCC, went to breakfast with his wife at Kunming's Changshui airport after purchasing his plane ticket.

His breakfast was a leisurely one. So leisurely that they missed the boarding call.

What happens next was captured on CCTV. It's not pretty.

Mr. Linkun approaches the boarding gate with his wife. After speaking to staff members he is denied boarding. Mr. Linkun and his wife are asked to wait.

Instead, they try to open the door to the tarmac. It doesn't work. As his frustration builds Mr. Linkun moves back to the boarding gate desk. He grabs the computer keyboard and points aggressively at the female airline staff member.

Then Mr. Linkun starts to smash things. First the computer keyboard. He rips it from it's socket and smashes it against the floor. Then he destroys the computers, then the phones. Not content with that damage he finds the airport signs.

A large crowd gathers as Mr. Linkun picks up the boarding gate sign and smashes it against the locked airport tarmac door. Once everything is smashed Mr. Linkun appears to address the crowd as his wife rips up her ticket.

During the tirade, security staff can be seen gathering on the other side of the boarding gate barrier. They watch, but don't move.

It's not the first time China's airport security have failed to intervene in a serious incident. In October 2012, Chinese security officials stood by while angry passengers held the captain and crew of a Jetstar flight hostage for more than six hours at Shanghai's Pudong Airport.