JetBlue flight 33 to Paris was delayed an hour and a half to find a replacement pilot last night, because police officers boarded the aircraft and removed one of the cockpit crew on an outstanding warrant for second-degree sex exploitation of a minor.
The arrest occurred shortly after the flight’s scheduled 8:19 p.m. departure, following Customs and Border Protection officers identifying the 33-year old pilot on the flight manifest and alerting Massachusetts State Police.
The Ohio resident pilot was wanted on a warrant from Huntersville, North Carolina. He was taken into custody without incident. Details regarding the alleged offense have not yet been disclosed. This is a good reminder that part of identifying passengers with ID and against names on reservations is about matching them to terror screening databases, but that everyone is also being checked for law enforcement purposes as well.
And this isn’t just being done for flights entering the United States. There are departure exit controls in the U.S. They just happen behind the scenes, rather than in a formal queue like in most countries.
Darn. And I was just about to skip the country!!!!
Certainly he was a MAGA supporter
I hate it when security systems catch sexual predators.
Someone recently pointed out JetBlue was full of new hire perbs.
Another B6 flight delayed!
Ha Ha Ha!
Any chance it’s a mistaken identity or similar name? Would being vetted for a pilots license catch this?
Wait, JetBlue flies BOS-CDG??!? Who knew?
No clue what’s actually going on here, but basically this guy’s reputation is irreparably harmed, even if later it was mistaken identity. ‘…until proven guilty’ (but not in the court of ‘public opinion’ though). If he did something wrong, there should be due process (a trial).
@Craig Jones — Is your joke that you, too, may have a warrant, or be a pedophile… if so, nice ‘self-own’. Like, I often say ‘you do you,’ but I did not mean kiddy-diddling. Yikes. So there are exceptions to that rule of thumb it seems.
Matt Gaetz has a pilots lickennethdiaz59@hotmail.comense?
It’s a good thing that this happened on an airline that is known for flying late. If it had happened on another airline that prides itself on on time departures or even a little early departures, the gate would have been closed and the airplane would have departed so that the gate agent wouldn’t get dressed down by the supervisor.
@EvilEye
Most pedos are lgbt and lefties.
@AndyS:
You’re calling Gaetz a lefty?