From Daily Mail: Federal authorities could be seen storming the cockpit of a Delta Airlines flight in San Francisco before they placed the co-pilot in handcuffs and led him off the flight.
The federal agents entered Flight 2809 from Minneapolis shortly after it landed at the San Francisco International Airport at around 9.35pm on Saturday.
They were filmed donning plainclothes and wearing law enforcement badges around their necks. Their faces were cropped out in video shared online.
According to passengers, a group of 10 officers, some from Homeland Security Investigations and others federal air marshals, boarded the plane to arrest the co-pilot, KTLA reports.
“A group of people with badges, guns and different agency vests/markings were pushing their way through the aisle to the cockpit,” one passenger told the San Francisco Chronicle.
She said they “stormed the cockpit, cuffed the pilot, arrested him, walked him down the aisle and ushered him off the plane through the cabin doors located between first and coach.”
Authorities have not revealed why the co-pilot was apprehended, but according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, a senior federal official claims the co-pilot faces allegations involving child sexual abuse materials.
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