NEW YORK (AP) — Government are investigating after a Russian nationwide who didn’t have a price ticket boarded a Paris-bound Delta flight at New York’s John F. Kennedy Global Airport this week and was once arrested when the airplane touched down.Delta Flight 264 took off Tuesday evening from Kennedy and landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris the next day to come with a stowaway who had someway bypassed safety, government mentioned.Police boarded the airplane on the Paris airport, in step with a video from a passenger that was once shared on social media. “That is the captain. We’re simply looking ahead to the police to return on board,” the pilot may also be heard announcing.Daniel Velez, a spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Management, mentioned “a person and not using a boarding go” was once screened at Kennedy and was once no longer wearing any prohibited pieces.“TSA takes any incidents that happen at any of our checkpoints national severely,” Velez mentioned. “TSA will independently overview the instances of this incident at our trip record checker station at JFK.”
A Delta spokesperson mentioned in a observation, “Not anything is of higher significance than issues of security and safety. That’s why Delta is undertaking an exhaustive investigation of what could have happened and can paintings collaboratively with different aviation stakeholders and regulation enforcement to that finish.”
The French Nationwide Police mentioned Friday, “A passenger of Russian nationality was once smuggled onto a flight from NY (JFK) to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.”
The passenger “was once refused access to France for loss of a sound trip record (visa), and was once positioned in a ready house for the time wanted to go back her to the US as she held a sound US place of dwelling allow,” the Nationwide Police mentioned in a observation.A spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy Airport, declined to remark.
