A pilot was arrested aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and federal agents took him into custody from the cockpit after the plane landed at San Francisco International Airport.

Federal agents and sheriff's deputies stormed the cockpit of a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco over the weekend and arrested the co-pilot on child sexual assault charges, authorities said.

A Delta Airlines co-pilot was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on multiple child sexual abuse charges, facing up to life in prison if convicted.