American Airlines Regional Pilot Arrested After Horrific Child Sexual Abuse Videos Found on iPhone

A pilot who works for a regional subsidiary of American Airlines has been arrested on charges of child sexual exploitation after police found hours worth of horrific videos purportedly showing him abusing his own daughter on his iPhone.

According to a criminal complaint filed in a US District Court in Oklahoma, the pilot, who works as a First Officer for PSA Airlines based in Dayton, Ohio, was arrested earlier this week following weeks of investigation and forensic analysis by the FBI.

The accusations against the pilot came to light after he arranged to meet a prostitute during a layover at the Best Western Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 11, 2025, court documents reveal.

The veteran crew member for the American Airlines regional carrier had consensual intercourse with the adult sex worker, but afterward, he allegedly began showing her truly horrifying videos of child pornography, including one that he reportedly claimed was his own daughter.

The sex worker was so appalled by what she had been shown that she convinced the pilot to take a shower so that she could steal his iPhone and iPad, before attempting to contact his wife to tell her what she had witnessed.

When his wife didn’t approve of her calling, however, she fled to the nearest police station so that she could turn in the devices.

While being questioned by law enforcement, the prostitute claimed the pilot had told her that he used to drug his daughter before having sex with her, and although she was now grown up, he asked the prostitute to have sex with his 14-year-old son.

A forensic examination of the pilot’s iPhone uncovered a video file nearly three hours in length depicting appalling child pornography. One of the men shown having sex with a child in the video has a likeness to the pilot, the criminal complaint alleges.

More evidence of child sexual abuse was found on the pilot’s iPad, with details so appalling that they can’t be shared here.

Earlier this year, a JetBlue pilot preparing to fly from Boston to Paris was arrested just moments before takeoff on an outstanding child exploitation warrant in North Carolina.

Jeremy Gudorf, 33, was arrested on February 20 after a routine law enforcement check of the passenger and crew manifest revealed that Gudorf had an outstanding warrant.

After appearing in a Boston courthouse and being ordered to report to North Carolina, Gudorf went on the run, and a manhunt was launched to track him down.

As a specialist fugitive closed in on Gudorf at an MBTA Station in Revere last month, he abruptly pulled out a gun and shot himself. Officers attempted to save Gudorf’s life, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.