A 38-year-old woman was arrested on federal charges last week after she was accused of disrupting a flight from Bethel to Anchorage.
Caryn Denise Evan began yelling and hit someone she was traveling with as the plane was about to land in Anchorage on Nov. 12, according to an affidavit written by an FBI special agent and filed with charges. Evan is from Chefornak, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska.
Flight attendants moved the other person to a back row and tried to calm Evan so they could continue preparing the plane for landing, the affidavit said. Shortly afterward, Evan began “moving uncontrollably, flailing about, and interfering with the passengers around her,” the special agent wrote. A nurse volunteered to sit next to her to help during the rest of the flight, the affidavit said.
Evan was arrested on a federal charge of interference with flight crews when the plane landed.
Investigators later spoke with the person Evan was traveling with and he told them she drank alcohol before the flight because she was anxious about flying, the affidavit said. She became aggressive toward the end of the flight after she quickly drank a glass of wine before landing, it said.
A breath-alcohol test administered at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center showed Evan’s blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit for driving in Alaska, the affidavit said.
A judge last week ordered Evan to be released without cash bail as long as she agreed to follow court orders and show up for future hearings.