Plane Cleared After Bullet Found in Cabin

Passengers were taken from an Alaska Airlines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a federal air marshal found a bullet in the cabin, the airline said.

An airline spokeswoman said Transportation Security Administration agents found no gun or any other items on the San Francisco-bound aircraft.

TSA agents rescreened passengers of Flight 384, which had been scheduled to depart at 3:15 p.m., then cleared the plane to fly to San Francisco. It left at 5:43 p.m., the spokeswoman said.

It was not immediately clear how the bullet got onto the plane, but she noted that the airline flies many hunters to Alaska and that occasionally bullets had fallen out of passengers’ pockets.