Jeanne Le BorgnewithStéphane Sellami
11/28/2024 at 08:56Updated on 11/28/2024 at 09:41
A woman of Russian origin managed to get on flight DAL264 which linked New York to Paris on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday November 27 without a ticket, without a boarding pass and without a passport. An incident taken very seriously by the American authorities.
Panic on board a Delta plane! As the United States records one of its busiest weeks in terms of air traffic due to the long Thanksgiving weekend, one of America’s major airlines faced a rare incident. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, November 27, a “stowaway” passenger was discovered on board a flight linking New York’s JFK airport to Paris Charles-de-Gaulle.
According to ABC News, citing the government aviation agency (TSA), the individual managed to bypass the document checkpoint, as well as a boarding gate agent when entering the plane. ‘plane. On the other hand, he was reportedly “fully screened at the JFK security checkpoint.” He therefore did not carry “any prohibited items” and “did not represent a security risk”, assure the American authorities.
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Hidden in the toilet
The “New York Post” reports that the individual (believed to be a woman) was discovered in the toilet by a flight attendant after more than 7 hours of flight, because she had no seat to sit in. for landing. Upon arrival in Paris, Wednesday noon, the flight attendants asked other travelers to please wait in their seats while the French police came to deal with “a serious security problem” before mentioning “a passenger additional “.
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We do not yet know what happened to this person. But according to information from Paris Match, it was a Russian national who had a residence card in the United States and who was in a “confused” state. Delta launched “an exhaustive investigation” to try to understand how this traveler managed to enter the plane without a ticket or passport and a federal investigation was launched.
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