Man who was charged with molesting a woman and open self fondling on an international flight to Boston agrees to plead guilty, delete photos of the woman

An Indian national pulled off a plane from the Middle East after it landed at Logan Monday morning has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors in which he would be put on probation for 24 months - and would have to delete all the photos on his phone that he took of a woman he was molesting on the flight before he went back to his seat, unzipped his pants and brought himself off in full view of at least two other passengers.

The plea deal, filed today in US District Court in the case of Krishna Kunapuli, 39, still must be approved by a judge before he is released from a charge of committing a lewd, indecent or obscene act on a plane that first lands in the US. The crime carries a maximum possible penalty of 90 days in federal prison.

Kunapuli allegedly caressed the hair of a woman passenger he didn't know, offered her $5,000 to sleep with him in Boston and grabbed or fondled one of her breasts on an Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case. After a flight attendant made him return to his seat, he got out his phone and unzipped his pants and masturbated. Although he had a blanket, his motions were obvious and the blanket kept falling off, the affidavit states.