India, July 29 -- A Delta Airlines co-pilot, Rustom Bhagwagar, was arrested on Saturday night (local time) shortly after his flight landed at San Francisco International Airport, following a federal child sex abuse investigation.

Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and sheriff's deputies boarded the Boeing 757-300 and stormed the cockpit, where they arrested the pilot.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the 34-year-old was taken into custody at around 9:35 PM after Flight 2809 arrived from an undisclosed location, USA Today reported.

"The officers and agents were pushing their way up through the aisle and into the cockpit with badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings, where they cuffed the co-pilo...