(CNN) A man who admitted yanking a Muslim woman's hijab from her head during an airline flight pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of obstruction of a person's free exercise of religious rights, according to the plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court in New Mexico.

Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, will serve two months of home detention under the terms of the plea agreement. A sentencing date has not been set. The judge does not have to accept the agreement.

The incident occurred on a December 11 Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to a news release from the Justice Department. The woman is identified only as "K.A." in court documents.

'I grabbed the back of the hijab'

The "defendant's admission of facts" in the the plea agreement says:

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