article_snippet.sent: Alaska Airlines Flight 448 was just barely on
article_snippet.sent: so we're going to come back around," the pilot told air traffic control.
article_snippet.sent: the pilot told authorities the pilot had fallen asleep.
article_snippet.sent: It appears the pilot was never in any danger.
article_snippet.sent: a plane was also only in the air for 14 minutes.
article_snippet.sent: The passengers knew something wasn't right, almost as soon as a plane took off.
article_snippet.sent: and we thought there was something wrong with the landing gear," Robert Higgins told CNN affiliate KABC.
article_snippet.sent: That's when we notified the flight attendant that there was somebody underneath we.
article_snippet.sent: The emergency landing spooked the folks aboard Flight 448.
article_snippet.sent: Affiliate KOMO spoke to Marty Collins, another one of The passengers.
article_snippet.sent: we just took off for L.A. regular and then ... about five minutes into the flight the captain came on and said we were going back
article_snippet.sent: and we'd land within five to seven minutes, and we did," Marty Collins said.
article_snippet.sent: When we landed was when all the trucks and the police and the fire trucks surrounded Flight 448."
article_snippet.sent: Alaska Airlines said Alaska Airlines's investigating.  
article_snippet.sent: After the delay, the flight with 170 passengers and six crew members on board made the delay to Los Angeles early Monday evening.