Federal agents stormed the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight moments after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night, arresting co-pilot Rustom Bhagwagar, 34, on charges of sex crimes against a child, KVTU reports. He is being held at the Martinez Detention Facility on “five counts of oral copulation with a child under 10 years of age,” and is being held on $5 million bail, the sheriff’s department told KVTU. The dramatic incident happened after Delta Flight 2809 arrived from Minneapolis at around 9:35 p.m. at San Francisco International Airport. The Boeing 757 had already been delayed by heavy fog. As passengers waited to exit, plainclothes law enforcement boarded and moved swiftly through the cabin. “A group of people with badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings were pushing their way up through the aisle to the cockpit,” a passenger told the San Francisco Chronicle. She described at least 10 agents, including personnel from Homeland Security Investigations and air marshals. The officers “stormed the cockpit, cuffed the co-pilot, arrested him and ushered him off the plane,” she said. Bhagwagar has been suspended from Delta pending the investigation, the airline wrote in a statement.
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