A man caught impersonating a pilot was arrested after he boarded a plane scheduled to fly from Philadelphia International Airport to West Palm Beach, Fla, authorities said.

Philippe Jernnard, 61, of France, boarded the US Airways flight Wednesday night, according to the FBI.

NBC10's Rosemary Connors talked with airport police Capt. Michael Murphy who says that Jernnard was wearing an Air France shirt, had an Air France bag and presented a ticket to the gate agent and walked onto the plane.

Jernnard does not work for Air France, the airline said in a statement released Friday. "This person was not wearing an Air France uniform, badge or carrying an Air France crew baggage," the statement said. "Regarding the badge, it was a very poor fake badge, which in no way resembled the Air France Crew Member Certificate."

The gate agent told authorities that Jernnard had asked if there was any room in first class and was told "no."

According to the arrest report, Jernnard became irate after being told "no" and told her that he hated Americans and began to argue with her.

When the gate agent finished boarding the flight and went to close the plane's doors for takeoff, the arrest report states that she saw Jernnard sitting in the jump seat behind the captain's seat and his carry-on bag was stowed in the cockpit.

“She just assumes he takes his seat in coach and when she goes in to inform co-captain of the number of passengers on the flight that’s when she kind of recognizes he’s out of place,” said Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker.

According to the arrest report, the agent told Jernnard that he couldn't sit there unless he filled out paperwork and the captain told him to return to his assigned seat.

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Police say Jernnard started arguing and that's when they notified authorities.

The captain and first officer told authorities the man told them he was a pilot with Air France and knew how to fly 747s, but they became suspicious when he couldn't figure out how to open the jump seat.

After Jernnard was taken off the plane, police found an Air France ID card that had been changed to match his name.

Jernnard was arrested and charged with criminal trespass, tampering with records, impersonating a person privately employed and false ID to law enforcement. He will be charged federally Friday morning.

A JetBlue Airways captain whose midair meltdown last month forced his co-pilot to lock him out of the cockpit has been indicted.

Court documents posted Thursday show Clayton F. Osbon, 49, has been indicted on one count of interference of a flight crew, the Associated Press reports. It's the same charge he's been held on since shortly after the March 27 incident.

Osbon “moved through the aircraft and was disruptive and had to be subdued and forcibly restrained from re-entering the cockpit,” the Amarillo Globe-News reports, citing the indictment. If convicted, Osbon could face 20 years in prison.

A secretary for Osbon's attorney, Dean Roper, told the Associated Press that the Roper declined to comment. 

Osbon currently is undergoing a court-ordered psychiatric exam to determine whether he was legally sane when passengers wrestled him to the floor after witnesses said he ran through the cabin yelling about terrorists. It also will determine whether Osbon is fit to stand trial. 

A federal criminal complaint against Obson filed March 28 states that he mentioned “being evaluated by someone” to the first officer, talked about his church and needing to “focus.” He asked the first officer to take the controls as he made incoherent comments about religion and then said, “things just don’t matter.”

The first officer, Jason Dowd, safely landed Flight 191 in Amarillo, Texas, after passengers helped subdue Osbon.   

After the incident, passenger Tony Antolino praised the co-pilot in an interview on TODAY. "He had the instincts to recognize that something was going horribly wrong in the cockpit."

Flight 191 originated in New York and was carrying 141 passengers and crew members onboard.

Connye Osbon, Clayton's wife, said in a statement thanking the crew and passengers on April 1 that the family would not be granting interviews or making further comments about the incident.

JetBlue told msnbc.com that it is referring all questions regarding Osbon’s indictment to the FBI.

Information from the Associated Press was included in this report.

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A Frontier Airlines flight from Omaha, Neb., to Milwaukee was delayed Thursday morning after the pilot, suspected of being drunk, was kept from boarding the plane.

The pilot didn’t make it through security after arousing the suspicions of airport police and Frontier employees, airline spokesperson Lindsey Carpenter told msnbc.com. The incident is under investigation.

“Because this is a personnel issue, we can't and won't comment on specifics other than to say that because of concern of the crew member, that crew member was replaced," the airline said in a statement. “Appropriate action will be taken with the crew member when our investigation is complete.” 

Frontier Flight 1894, operated by Chautauqua Airlines, was scheduled to leave Omaha at 6 a.m., and departed shortly before 8 a.m. after a replacement pilot was found.

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