A Delta Air pilot was reportedly handcuffed and interrogated in the shower of his downtown Boston hotel after FBI and Department of Defense officials broke into the wrong hotel room as part of a botched training exercise, insiders have claimed.
The unnamed pilot wasn’t injured in the incident after special agents were accidentally sent to the wrong room at the Revere Hotel in Boston. The agents who were taking part in the exercise only realized their mistake after more than an hour.
According to sources cited by WBZ-TV, the FBI and DOD officials went to the 15th floor of the hotel and woke up the pilot before barging into the room, handcuffing him and taking him to the shower, where he was interrogated for the next hour.
The Boston Police Department and EMS were called to the hotel after the hotel reported an incident, although responding police officers were made aware that a training exercise was taking place.
The FBI has confirmed its agents were involved and said in a statement that they were working alongside DOD agents on a “training exercise at a hotel in Boston to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment”.
“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the statement continued. “Thankfully, nobody was injured”.
An FBI spokesperson says an internal investigation is now underway.
Delta Air Lines said it was aware of a report concerning a possible employee and that further enquiries were ongoing.
