Federal agents and local police stormed the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight that had landed just moments earlier and arrested the co-pilot on the runway of the San Francisco International Airport.

Oh my god, I can’t believe that happened. God darn it. I am so sorry,” Johartchi said after the mishap, documents showed.

The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday, July 26, on a flight from Minneapolis Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been published by Just Jared, ...

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While boarding a plane, you may have noticed the cockpit door is often kept open—and there's actually a pretty straightforward reason. If you’ve ever looked toward the front of the plane while ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Engineers are in the final testing phase of a cockpit alert system they say could prevent close calls on the runway. Honeywell Aerospace's "Surface Alert System," or "SURF-A," can ...