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.

The pilot was removed from the cockpit of a plane after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night. A woman was also charged in a related felony complaint.

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.