Russian National Stowed Away On NYC-Paris Flight

CNN reports:

Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the aircraft’s bathrooms during the flight. The stowaway didn’t have a boarding pass but completed a security screening and bypassed two identity verification and boarding status stations to board a Delta aircraft, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

The stowaway is a woman between 55 and 60 years old and has a Russian passport, according to an airport official in Paris. She will soon be sent back to the United States, the official said. The woman was in a waiting zone at Charles de Gaulle airport – known as ZAPI – for people awaiting deportation, as she does not meet the conditions for entering Europe. The woman applied for asylum in France a few years ago, the official told CNN.

Read the full article. The flight was full and the woman reportedly spent her time shuttling between restrooms.

Police in France say they arrested a Russian national who had boarded a Delta Airlines flight without a ticket. The woman was being held in Paris until she could be returned to the U.S. https://t.co/6fZLVTG76A

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