WASHINGTON -- Passengers onboard United Express Flight 5449 restrained a Boise, Idaho, woman who was ranting about being God. Video posted online purportedly shows a passenger working to tie up the woman's feet as another man holds her down in the aisle. 
 
 "I am God, I am God, I am God," she was heard screaming in the video. 
 
 Moments earlier she'd tried to open the aircraft cabin door while the plane was in flight which was traveling from San Francisco to Boise earlier Monday. 
 
 The plane landed safely and Boise police were waiting at the gate. The woman was taken for medical evaluation. 
 
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 The United Express Embraer 175 was operated by SkyWest Airlines and had 73 passengers on board. 
 
 Experts say it would be impossible to open a door in the pressurized cabin of a plane in the air, but that wouldn't make it less terrifying for the people on board. 
 
 A spokesperson for the Boise police says officers will forward the police report to the local prosecutor to decide if charges should be filed. The FBI may also review the case. ||||| Seattle (CNN) An unruly passenger who authorities say was trying to open an exit door on a Delta Air Lines flight to Beijing fought with the cabin crew and a passenger and was conked over the head by a flight attendant with two wine bottles, a criminal complaint alleges. 
 
 Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, a 23-year-old passenger from Florida, was arrested after the plane returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich-Williams said. 
 
 The suspect made an initial appearance in federal court Friday in Seattle, hearing the criminal complaint of one count of interfering with a flight crew. That carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. 
 
 A Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing turned back after takeoff Thursday evening after a passenger assaulted a flight-crew member -- an incident that left both people and another passenger injured -- FBI and airport representatives said. 
 
 The battle in the galley near the cockpit of Delta Flight 129, which was headed to Beijing with 210 passengers and 11 crew aboard, began as the airliner cruised near Canada's western coast about an hour into the flight. 
 
 According to a criminal complaint released Friday, Hudek -- who was traveling in first class on a dependent travel pass, a perk afforded to family members employed by the airline -- attempted to open the forward exit door on the right side of the airliner. 
 
 Two flight attendants tried to subdue Hudek but were pushed away, and he continued his attempt to open the door. According to the complaint, Hudek was able to move the door handle mechanism and push the emergency release lever halfway. 
 
 Aircraft cabin doors cannot be opened at high altitudes because of the differing pressures inside and outside the jet's cabin, and the Delta plane was cruising at high altitude, at 32,000 feet, when the incident happened. However, at a lower altitude, according to the complaint, it was possible the door might open. 
 
 The flight attendants then signaled to passengers they needed help. During the altercation, Hudek punched a flight attendant twice in the face and hit another assisting passenger with a bottle of wine. Hudek then attempted again to open the exit door. 
 
 As the struggle continued, another flight attendant grabbed two wine bottles and struck Hudek in the head, breaking one. 
 
 "Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full-liter red wine bottle over his head, and instead, shouted 'Do you know who I am?" or something to that extent," according to the complaint. Hudek was able to break away several times during the altercation. 
 
 Several first-class passengers and the flight attendants eventually were able to restrain Hudek long enough to put zip-tie handcuffs on him. He remained "extremely combative" all the way back to Seattle and needed to be restrained by multiple passengers until the Delta flight landed, according to the complaint. 
 
 Three injuries 
 
 The Boeing 767-300ER, which had taken off at 5:24 p.m. PT, turned back and landed at Sea-Tac airport at 7:09 p.m. PT, flight-tracking website FlightAware shows. 
 
 The flight attendant and a passenger were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, airport spokesman Perry Cooper said, without giving further details about the injuries. 
 
 Hudek was also injured, but declined treatment from medics and was taken into custody, Cooper said. 
 
 The flight departed again for Beijing shortly after midnight local time Friday. 
 
 Safe return 
 
 Delta described the event as a "security incident with a passenger." 
 
 "The passenger was restrained onboard and was removed from the flight by law enforcement without further incident when the aircraft arrived back at Seattle," the airline said in a prepared statement. 
 
 There were conflicting reports soon after the incident. Initially, two people familiar with it told CNN on condition of anonymity that the man tried to enter the cockpit, but the altercation took place just outside the cockpit door in the forward galley. 
 
 But Cooper subsequently said that was incorrect, and he and Dietrich-Williams described the incident only as an assault on a crew member. 
 
 Dietrich-Williams, the FBI spokeswoman, added there was no information to suggest that there was a national security threat. 
 
 The two people also initially said that the Boeing 767 returned to the airport under a Department of Defense escort. 
 
 But representatives from Delta and the North American Aerospace Defense Command said no such escort happened. 
 
 Lt. Commander Joe Nawrocki, a NORAD spokesman, clarified that jets were ready on the runway, but never took off. Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net indicated that F-15s at Portland International Airport were preparing to meet the Delta flight, but never departed. 
 
 The FBI Seattle field office maintains a regular presence at the airport, and assisted in interviewing passengers from the flight, Dietrich-Williams said. 
 
 Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from airport and airline officials and authorities. ||||| Reports of sexual assaults on airlines have increased, a change some attribute to the #MeToo movement 
 
 Two men accused of sexually assaulting fellow passengers aboard separate airline flights have been federally charged in a move meant to signal a heightened response to in-flight sex crimes. 
 
 Prosecutors in Seattle claim the men isolated and attacked women in what amounts to textbook cases of in-flight sexual abuse. One man is accused of groping a sleeping woman while she was incapacitated by prescription medication and alcohol; the other is alleged to have used his position in an outside seat to force himself on another passenger. 
 
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 In recent months, the FBI has publicized sexual assaults on airlines as reports of the crime have increased. Survivors and their advocates contend the airlines often fail to notify authorities when passengers are accosted. 
 
 Announcing the charges made on Thursday, US attorney Annette Hayes credited the #MeToo movement with empowering victims of sexual assault to come forward. 
 
 “If there is one thing we’ve learned in this year of #MeToo, it is that, if we all work together and we call a crime a crime, we can make a difference,” said Hayes, western Washington’s top federal law enforcement official. “We can make a difference even on airplanes.” 
 
 The issue was pushed to the forefront in November, after the former Facebook executive Randi Zuckerberg publicly faulted Alaska Airlines for valuing “the money of harassers over the comfort of their passengers” after an in-flight incident. 
 
 #MeToo: how a hashtag became a rallying cry against sexual harassment Read more 
 
 As Zuckerberg described it in a 30 November Facebook post, she and a colleague aboard a Los Angeles to Mazatlán, Mexico, flight were subjected to “explicit, lewd and highly offensive sexual comments” from another passenger before the flight departed. Rather than remove the man, flight attendants offered to reseat Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 
 
 In March, Congress ordered the US Department of Transportation to draft rules requiring airlines to train flight crews to respond to in-flight sexual assaults and to report apparent assaults to authorities. The move was cheered by the flight attendants’ union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, with its president, Sara Nelson, praising it as a “long overdue” move to address “what until recently has been a silent epidemic in every corner of our country”. 
 
 In the charges announced Thursday, federal prosecutors accused Babak Rezapour, 41, of Van Nuys, California, of groping a sleeping woman on a 10 January Norwegian Airlines flight from London’s Gatwick airport to Seattle. 
 
 Prosecutors say the woman, drowsy from a combination of medication and a glass of wine, woke when Rezapour rubbed her right thigh, according to charging papers. The woman later told investigators Rezapour had groped her repeatedly as she attempted to wake. A crew member eventually found her curled on the aircraft floor near the lavatories, crying and shaking. 
 
 Police stopped Rezapour after the flight arrived in Seattle. According to court papers, he denied touching the woman. He has been charged with abusive sexual contact aboard an airliner. 
 
 Facing the same charge, Nicholas Matthew Stevens, 37, of Anchorage, Alaska, is accused of groping a fellow passenger on an 8 March Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Seattle. 
 
 Prosecutors claim Stevens pestered the woman during the flight, grabbing at her hand and resting his head on her shoulder. Stevens is alleged to have groped the woman’s breast and thigh; she later told investigators she felt trapped in her window seat. The woman went to police after her flight arrived. Stevens was contacted by police at the airport. 
 
 The allegations against Stevens and Rezapour describe patterns of abuse frequently seen by investigators. 
 
 According to the FBI, assailants most often attack women and unaccompanied children as they sleep on long-haul flights. The assaults generally occur after the cabin lights have dimmed, and are usually perpetrated against passengers in middle or window seats. 
 
 The number of reported in-flight assaults remains small, though it is increasing. The FBI received 63 reports of in-flight sexual assault in 2017, up from 38 in 2014. No one suggests those numbers capture the size of the problem. 
 
 Jay Tabb, the FBI special agent in charge for Washington state, said the rise appeared to be driven by an increase in reporting. Tabb encouraged passengers who believed they had experienced or witnessed sexual assault to contact the flight crew immediately and call 911 once they landed. 
 
 “Please know that it matters,” Tabb said, “and that the FBI will do everything it can to deliver justice.”
– A passenger who apparently believed she was some kind of deity was restrained by fellow fliers after trying to open an airplane cabin door during a flight from San Francisco to Boise, Idaho, on Monday. In video of the incident on United Express Flight 5449, the woman can be heard screaming "I am God" repeatedly as other passengers tie up her feet, reports CBS News, which notes that it would have been impossible for her to open the door in the pressurized cabin. The flight landed safely in Boise, where the woman was taken into custody. Police say the woman is being medically evaluated and the prosecutor's office is reviewing possible charges, KTVB reports. The FBI is also investigating. (This Alaska Airlines flight had to return to Anchorage on account of nudity.)