How a Woman Managed to Board Delta Flight to Paris Without a Boarding Pass
How a Woman Managed to Board Delta Flight to Paris Without a Boarding Pass
A woman managed to evade several security checkpoints and traveled from New York to Paris without a boarding pass. The method she used to circumvent the boarding procedures is still unknown, and it has not been confirmed whether she was apprehended.
An article from the New York Post reports that an unnamed woman exploited the chaos of the holiday season to evade two identity verification and boarding status checkpoints before getting on the plane in Delta flight.
“TSA can confirm that an individual without a boarding pass completed security screening (including on-person and bags) without any prohibited items. The individual bypassed two identity verification and boarding status stations and boarded the aircraft,” confirms the TSA, Transportation Security Administration.
The woman managed to evade several security measures at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday, boarding a Delta Airlines flight to Paris without possessing a boarding pass or any form of identification.
A flight attendant found the woman in the bathroom as the lengthy seven-hour flight was nearing its conclusion.
They identified a suspected stowaway on a nearly full flight after noticing the individual making several extended trips to the lavatories of the Boeing 767-400ER, as reported by a source familiar with the situation. The 767-400 is a wide-body aircraft and ranks among the largest in Delta’s fleet, accommodating 238 passengers in the airline’s specific layout.
Passengers were not informed about the stowaway during the flight, but upon landing in Paris, the crew informed everyone that French police would be boarding the aircraft to address a “serious security issue.”
Flight attendants can view the flight manifest, which contains the names of passengers and their assigned seats. This enables the crew to confirm that the woman was a suspected stowaway rather than a ticketed passenger.
A source from the Transportation Security Administration informed CBS News that the woman bypassed the document and ID verification stage of the TSA process at a checkpoint at JFK Airport. She subsequently went through an advanced imaging technology body scanner.
