CHICAGO - A 52-year-old pilot for Southwest Airlines was arrested Wednesday morning at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport for allegedly showing up to work intoxicated. David Allsop, a New Hampshire resident, was taken into custody around 7 a.m. by the Chatham County Sheriff's Office and charged with driving under the influence.

The pilot, David Allsop, 52, was arrested at Savannah Hilton Head Airport Wednesday morning and has been removed from duty. The flight was delayed about five hours.

Southwest Airlines confirmed the pilot had been removed from duty and apologized to customers whose travel plans were disrupted.

A Southwest flight was delayed for five hours Wednesday morning due to a pilot being arrested and charged with DUI, officials said.

A Southwest Airlines pilot at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport was removed from an aircraft and charged with driving under the influence Wednesday morning, delaying the flight for hours.

David Allsop, 52 from New Hampshire, was arrested at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport on Wednesday morning.

David Paul Allsop, 52, of Bedford, N.H., was arrested around 7 a.m. on a charge of operating under the influence by the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport Police Department, according to a booking sheet provided by the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office.

A Southwest Airlines pilot was arrested and removed from the cockpit at an airport in Georgia after allegedly failing a sobriety test before a flight to Chicago, police said.

A Southwest Airlines pilot was arrested shortly before takeoff at a Georgia airport after he allegedly showed up to work intoxicated, police say.

A close call is what passengers of Flight 3772 are calling the incident. “We felt it moving away, and then it just stopped,” said passenger Robert Newmerch. Newmerch says he was heading to his layover in Chicago from the Savannah Airport,