Delta planes sit on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy Airport.Photo:Spencer Platt/Getty
Spencer Platt/Getty
A stowaway whosneaked onto a Delta Airlines flightfrom New York City to Paris and hid in bathrooms was reportedly removed from what would have been her return flight on Saturday, Nov. 30, after causing a disruption.
According toCBSandCNN, the woman was set to fly from Charles de Gaulle Airport in France to John F. Kennedy International Airport in N.Y.C. on Delta Flight No. 265 when French officials removed her prior to takeoff.
Charles de Gaulle Airport in France (stock image).Eric PIERMONT / AFP/Getty
Eric PIERMONT / AFP/Getty
The woman’s flight back to the United States has not yet been rescheduled, and she is now in French custody, per CBS and CNN.
French officials have yet to release the woman’s identity, but CNN reports that she has a driver’s license from Philadelphia and is in the U.S. on a green card. She is also reportedly native to Russia, CNN learned from the French Ministry of the Interior.
Prior to the attempted flight back to the U.S., she had been held at a waiting zone in the airport as she does not meet the conditions to enter Europe.
TSA and Delta Airlines both declined to provide additional information to PEOPLE.
A Delta plane (stock image).Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty
Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty
PEOPLE previously reported that the woman sneaked on the nearly full Delta Flight 264 from N.Y.C to Paris on Nov. 26 during travel surges amid Thanksgiving. She managed to get through airport security and boarded the plane without a boarding pass.
A flight attendant discovered the stowaway while the flight was in the air after growing suspicious of her frequent, long visits to the plane’s bathrooms.
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On Nov. 28, a spokesperson for Delta told PEOPLE in a statement that “nothing is of greater importance than matters of safety and security.”
“That’s why Delta is conducting an exhaustive investigation of what may have occurred and will work collaboratively with other aviation stakeholders and law enforcement to that end,” the statement concluded.
The airline added that it will “decline further comment at this time given ongoing investigations.”
source: people.com
