[Alex Murphy]

A Denver-bound United Airlines flight had to turn back and return to Dulles International Airport after an unruly passenger allegedly charged toward the cockpit. According to multiple reports, the passenger was subdued by several passengers near first class before he made it to the cockpit, the Post reports. A Reddit user whose father was on the plane posted pictures and a video of the incident and says that the passenger in question "was screaming and sprinting towards the cockpit" before he was tackled and subdued by "several large passengers." A government official with "direct knowledge of the incident" told CNN that the passenger was screaming "jihad, jihad" while charged toward the cockpit. The plane, which returned to Dulles shortly after it took off at 10:15 last night, had 33 passengers and six crew members on board.

I don't think I've been on a commercial flight in the last decade that had so few passengers.

[starvosan]

“I don’t think I’ve been on a commercial flight in the last decade that had so few passengers.”

Me neither. And the plane was a B737, that could have held at least tour times as many pax. I am smelling a rat in this story.