DENVER -- Some passengers on a recent Frontier Airlines flight carrying hurricane evacuees from Houston were in no mood for an unruly passenger.

On that Tuesday flight, Jason Glen Tervort, 26, allegedly walked up to a flight attendant in the center aisle and tried to make an announcement.

He had said, "Ladies and gentleman, I have an announcement to make. My name is Jason," according to witnesses.

When flight attendant Sarah Dinkelman tried to get him to sit down, he allegedly pushed and slapped her, saying, "I'm a man," according to the arrest affidavit.

That's when other passengers stepped in, beating Tervort before tying him up with duct tape. The men said he was spitting, biting, and yelling profanities so they had to use duct tape to tie his arms and legs to the lower rail of the seats on both sides of the center aisle.

Police officers met the plane at Denver International Airport where they arrested Tervort. Officers noticed blood down the center aisle for several rows and pooling of blood near the back of the plane where Tervort had been tied up.

Tervort appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Denver Thursday and was advised that he faces charges of interference with a flight crew, a felony, punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison. Tervort had recently been discharged from the Army.

None of the passengers who stepped in will face charges.

"They used the amount of force necessary," police spokeswoman Virginia Lopez said. "With what happened in the past (Sept. 11, 2001) you don't know what this person is going to do. They did what they had to."

Tervort was not seriously injured. Frontier Airlines spokesman Joe Hodas said Dinkelman was shaken, but physically unharmed.

"It was obviously a situation where the passenger was mentally disturbed," he said.

It was unclear how many of the men who subdued Tervort were evacuees being sent to a shelter in Colorado. Some evacuees were among the 42 passengers, including three infants, on Flight 147.