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A Delta Airlines pilot appears to be in serious trouble. On Sunday, reports began to surface of a co-pilot of a Delta Airlines flight being forcibly removed from the plane by Homeland Security as soon as he landed in San Francisco.
🚨BREAKING NEWS #SanFrancsico / #California
Federal Agents have arrested a Delta Airlines Pilot in the cockpit just after it landed in San Francisco and ARREST THE PILOT. Co-pilot appeared shocked. Homeland Security Investigations was in on the arrest.
Delta Flight 2809… pic.twitter.com/MzXBTTCyGq
— OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 (@OC_Scanner) July 27, 2025
Delta Airlines pilot ARRESTED as plane lands in San Francisco
10 officers RAID cockpit ‘without warning’
Passengers stunned as pilot hauled off the jet pic.twitter.com/Dqg0Hjo60j
— RT (@RT_com) July 27, 2025
A passenger on the plane spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about witnessing the pilot’s arrest.
“A group of people with badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings were pushing their way up through the aisle to the cockpit,” passenger Sarah Christianson told the Chronicle.
According to the witness, officers “stormed the cockpit, cuffed the copilot, arrested him, walked him down the aisle, and ushered him off the plane through the cabin doors located between first and coach.”
Update: Fox News’ Bill Melugin claims the pilot was arrested on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material.
NEW: I’m told by a senior federal source that the Delta co-pilot was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents on charges of child sexual abuse material. https://t.co/BglKcJAVPg
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 27, 2025