Shocking video footage captured the moment police in Houston hauled a Frontier Airlines pilot off a plane in handcuffs and put him in the back of a cop car.
Seymour Walker, 45, was arrested Thursday at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston for an assault-family violence warrant, according to Storyful.
Houston Police officers arrested Walker on the plane, which was prepping to depart of Dallas-Fort Worth after a warrant was issued by the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety.
Walker was arrested on a warrant for “assault-family violence,” but the circumstances around what led to the charges was not immediately clear.
While no passengers were on the plane at the time of his arrest, the next flight set to use that aircraft was canceled.
Video of the arrest shows Walker being escorted off the plane with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Several officers can be seen guiding him to a cop car parked nearby on the tarmac.
Authorities said they waited until the plane arrived at the Houston airport around 4 p.m.
Once passengers deplaned the initial flight they took Walker into “custody without incident,” police told CBS News.
“The activity occurred prior to the start of boarding for Flight 3195 scheduled from IAH to Dallas Forth Worth (DFW). A replacement crew member was not immediately available and therefore the flight was canceled,” Frontier told the station in a statement.
Passengers on that flight were offered a full refund, credit or a spot on the next available Frontier flight.
“Airlines report incidents such as this to the FAA office that oversees them, and we investigate all pilot-related issues,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
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I want America back. This is what happens when you put unqualified individuals on a job because of what they look like. People should be hired on qualifications. Not on race, sex, or otherwise. We are in a chaotic mess because of this. Stop playing the race card. Period!
The America when black people would not be hired as pilots?
As involved with plenty of airlines pilots ( I am married to a retired flight attendant) there were plenty of them which were good pilots ,white and terrible husbands and human beings.
I do not know about this individual pilot qualifications OR even if the charges were justified or just the lies of an angry wife out to get even with husband, BUT I know a couple of things
1- probably this web site would not have even address this story if the pilot be blonde/blue eyes
2-You are probably pretty racist.
3- in my long professional life as an engineer, system analyst, financial planner I have seen many black colleagues get passed over for promotions they deserved because the bosses, same as you assume they were not qualified because of their race…or gender. I also reported to smart black managers and idiotic white managers
This article didn’t give enough info to really comment on, but like HitlerSmith/GermanSmith, I’m wondering if this is more of that Democrats’ ‘believe all women’ nonsense… or something real…