A pilot for Delta Air Lines facing charges involving child sex abuse materials was arrested in a plane’s cockpit immediately after landing in San Francisco on Saturday night, the authorities said.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest in an email on Monday. It did not give any further details about the pilot or the charges.
Flight 2809, a Boeing 757-300, arrived at San Francisco International Airport at 9:35 p.m. on Saturday after departing from Minneapolis.
A passenger on the plane told the San Francisco Chronicle that several people with “badges, guns and different agency vests/markings” made their way up the aisle and into the cockpit, where they put one of the pilots in handcuffs and escorted that pilot off the plane.
The passenger estimated that there were at least 10 law enforcement officers involved in the arrest.
The aviation blog View From the Wing published a short video showing several people with visible badges walking out of the plane’s cockpit.
Delta declined to comment on the arrest and directed questions to law enforcement agencies.
Adeel Hassan, a New York-based reporter for The Times, covers breaking news and other topics.
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