A United Airlines jet returned to a Washington airport Monday night after passengers pounced on a [Muslim] man who rushed toward the cockpit yelling “Jihad! Jihad!” officials and witnesses said.

United Flight 1074 returned to Dulles International Airport around 10:40 p.m. following a “disturbance onboard,” an airport spokeswoman said.

Authorities took a passenger off the Denver-bound plane and took him to a hospital for evaluation, said Kimberly Gibbs, a spokeswoman for Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

Videos posted to Reddit showed a young man with facial cuts being subdued by several of the 33 passengers onboard the Boeing 737. A passenger told NBC News that passengers tackled the unruly man as he moved toward the cockpit.

Other fliers said the man told them he had smuggled a bomb onto the plane, but a United spokesman said a search didn’t turn up any explosives, NBC reported.

The man was seen in videos tearfully apologizing as passengers held him on the ground. Commenters on Reddit said the man shouted “Jihad! Jihad!” before making a run at the cockpit.