( CNN ) -- An angry passenger used his mother 's old Air France employee documents to con his way into the cockpit of a US Airways flight last week , according to the criminal complaint filed against him Monday in U.S District Court in Philadelphia . Philippe Jeannard , 61 , had become disruptive Wednesday after being told that the airline could not accommodate his request to move up to business class during a stopover in Philadelphia , Brian L. Jones , a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations , described Jeannard in an affidavit as difficult and verbally abusive to a flight attendant and gate supervisor . Jeannard was wearing a white button-down shirt with an Air France logo over the pocket and a black jacket with four gold stripes on the epaulets , similar to one worn by pilots , the complaint said . He identified himself to the gate supervisor as an Air France pilot . As a courtesy , a flight attendant asked Jeannard if he would like to speak with the pilots , according to the complaint . Jeannard entered the cockpit , where two pilots were performing preflight duties , and told the pilots he was an Air France Boeing 747 pilot , it says . `` He identified himself as a pilot and started to sit in the jump seat . But he immediately had a problem getting strapped in and it was obvious to the real pilots that he could n't be a pilot , '' Philadelphia Inspector Joseph Sullivan told CNN last week . `` He did n't know what he was doing . '' The gate agent told Jeannard he would have to fill out paperwork to use the jump seat , but the man did n't have credentials , police said . The captain then told him to leave the cockpit area , and Jeannard became irate , police said . Jeannard was taken off the aircraft . He appeared to have had some drinks , but there 's no indication he was drunk , Sullivan said . The flight departed , and a US Airways agent tried to book him on another flight to West Palm Beach , Florida , his final destination . According to the criminal complaint , after returning to the gate Jeannard covered his Air France shirt with a sweater and acknowledged to a US Airways manager that he was not an Air France employee . Jeannard was taken to the Philadelphia Police Department 's airport holding cell and arrested on charges of trespassing , tampering with records , false impersonating and false identification to law enforcement authorities . Police discovered documents appearing to be Air France checklists and flight plans in Jeannard 's briefcase , according to Jones ' complaint . It said Jeannard admitted to having falsified his mother 's Air France identification card , which the airline said was real . Jones said Jeannard had replaced his mother 's information with his own name and photograph ; it identified him as an Airbus A380 crew member . Air France spokesman Cedric Leurquin described it as a bad fake of an Air France crew badge . Jeannard , who is from La Rochelle , France , is a retired winemaker who was changing planes on his way from France to Florida , police inspector Sullivan said . Jeannard at one point remarked that he `` hated Americans , '' police said , but investigators have not found any link to terrorism , a federal law enforcement official said . US Airways declined to comment . CNN 's Susan Candiotti , Michael Martinez and Jim Kavanagh contributed to this report .
Passenger used mom 's Air France ID to bluff way to front of plane , FBI investigator says . Comment: Man 's clumsiness with jump seat revealed him as a phony , pilots told investigators . Jeannard faces a variety of state and federal charges .