CNN —A stowaway evaded multiple airport security checkpoints and flew aboard a Delta Airlines flight from New York to Paris Tuesday evening, authorities said – a shocking breach that raised serious alarm over airport security.
Passengers weren’t alerted to the stowaway on Delta flight 264 from New York’s JFK International Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport until the plane landed in Paris, said Rob Jackson, who was a passenger on the flight.
“Apparently, she hid in a lavatory all the way at the rear of the aircraft when we departed JFK,” Jackson told CNN.
She has a Russian passport and will soon be sent back to the United States, according to an airport official in Paris.
“Nothing is of greater importance than matters of safety and security,” a Delta spokesperson said in a statement.
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