MOSCOW, January 23 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s Khanty-Mansiysk on Wednesday ordered detention for Pavel Shapovalov, a passenger of an aircraft bound from the Siberian city of Surgut to Moscow charged with hijacking, a statement released on the Investigative Committee’s website reads.

Shapovalov, 41, was reportedly detained until March 22.

According to investigators, on January 22, Shapovalov threatening he was armed attempted to break into the air crew cabin and demanded to change the aircraft’s course. A pilot-in-command adopt a decision to make a forced landing 300km short of its destination, in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.

The passenger was charged with hijacking with the threat of violence. He was also ordered to undergo mental examination because medical inspection of the man showed no alcohol, drugs or other psychotropic substances in his blood.