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"Kate Danyluk, an anchorage instructor aboard Airline 146, said to The Associated Press, "Police arrived and brought him out the back way. At first she said to the press agent that she thought something was wrong when the cabin crew in the corridors kept walking back and forth and putting on elastic mitts.

As a result of the event, the passenger was distracted and returned to Seattle 146 hrs behind plan for their stage. "I' d rather go back to Anchorage than have something happen," Danyluk added to AP. "Although no emergencies were explained, the choice was made to go back to Anchorage," he added. Initially, the plane took off at 1:21 a.m. locally, but less than an hours later it returned to Anchorage, according to a summary of the FlightAware flights.

At 2:44 a.m. LTC it touched down and at 3:14 a.m. LTC it reached the gates, as the FlightAware files show. The 146 passenger plane was asked to take off, but finally took off for Seattle in a plane that was leaving Anchorage at 6:37 a.m. CET. Arriving in Seattle around 11 a.m. L.C., about five hrs later than planned.

The FBI and air traffic control hit the aircraft on our descent. A Staci Feger-Pellessier, a Spokesperson for the Anchorage FBI Bureau, said AP was informed via e-mail Thursday that the man was taken to a nearby clinic for mental health analysis. "It has not yet made a definitive decision as to whether or not to prosecute," Chloe Martin, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Department in Alaska, added.