Another stowaway was caught on a Delta Air Lines flight, this time on a flight from Seattle to Hawaii without a ticket on Christmas Eve.
A month after a woman was caught hiding on a Delta flight from the US to France, several media outlets have confirmed that an unidentified person has been caught trying to do the same thing.
Delta told ABC News that Flight 487 was taxiing into Seattle/Tacoma International Airport on Dec. 24 when the plane crashed. An illegal passenger has been detected.
“Because nothing is more important than safety and security, Delta employees followed procedures to obtain… The passenger without a ticket is removed from the flight “Then they were arrested,” a Delta spokesperson told PEOPLE. “We apologize to our customers for the delay in their travel and thank them for their patience and cooperation.”
“The individual underwent standard screening and was not in possession of any prohibited items,” the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) told the outlet.
The person passed through security the previous evening, on December 23, airport media relations spokesman Perry Cooper told CNN. The next day, “they were able to reach the loading bridge Without a scanned ticket At the gate.”
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“This individual bypassed identity verification and boarding status stations and boarded a plane at Seattle/Tacoma International Airport (SEA) without a boarding pass,” the TSA continued in its statement.
The accident caused the flight to take off for approximately two hours and 15 minutes Behind scheduleFox Business reports.
It remains unclear how the passenger managed to evade security checkpoints without a ticket and make his way on the plane.
The passenger was arrested for trespassing and booked into the Southern Correctional Entity Jail, according to airport authorities.
The second stowaway on Delta in a month
In November, Svetlana Daly, a 57-year-old Russian citizen living in the United States, was detained in Paris after she forced her way onto a Delta Air Lines flight at New York’s JFK International Airport without a boarding pass on 26 November. She flew all the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, and apparently concealed herself by spending long periods in the plane’s multiple bathrooms.
French National Police said at the time that she was arrested when authorities discovered that she did not have a valid visa to enter the country.
After two failed attempts to have her extradited to the United States – delayed after she “started screaming” and causing a scene on departing planes – she was finally returned to US soil on December 4 and arrested by the FBI.
Svetlana Dali appears in the photo.
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Despite a December 6 court hearing ordering her not to leave Philadelphia and being fitted with an ankle monitor until her trial, Daly was undeterred and was arrested shortly after attempting to sneak into Canada, where she reportedly cut off her ankle monitor before boarding a plane. Greyhound bus bound for Great White North.
Daly was able to pass a body scanner with advanced imaging technology at JFK Airport and avoid document and identity checks during the security process.
At the gate, Daly successfully blended into a large group of other travelers and slipped past employees without a ticket, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN.
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