A Delta Air Lines pilot was arrested on child sex abuse charges and removed from a plane’s cockpit immediately after landing in San Francisco on Saturday night, the authorities said.

A pilot was arrested aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and federal agents took him into custody from the cockpit after the plane landed at San Francisco International Airport.

“A group of people with badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings were pushing their way up through the aisle to the cockpit,” a passenger, who had been seated in first class, told the outlet...