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A stowaway flew aboard a Delta Air Traces flight from New York to Paris Tuesday night amid the Thanksgiving travel surge, authorities mentioned.
The stowaway was on Delta flight 264 from New York’s JFK Worldwide Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, the airline confirmed to CNN.
The person, who didn’t have a boarding move, accomplished safety screening and bypassed two identification verification and boarding standing stations to board the plane, in accordance with a spokesperson for the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA). The individual was not carrying any prohibited gadgets.
It’s unclear how the individual bypassed the boarding stations. Delta declined to supply extra particulars because the investigation continued.
Passengers weren’t alerted to the stowaway till the aircraft landed in Paris, mentioned Rob Jackson, who was a passenger on the Delta flight.
“I didn’t really see the individual in query,” Jackson informed CNN.
“The primary announcement to passengers that there was an issue was once we parked on the gate they usually instructed us all to stay seated as a result of French police had been going to board the plane to cope with ‘a severe safety problem,’” he mentioned.
In a video recorded by Jackson, the captain might be heard saying, “People, that is the captain, we’re simply ready for the police to come back on board. They could be right here now they usually directed us to maintain everybody on the airplane till we type out the additional passenger that’s on the aircraft.”
Jackson mentioned the flight was fully full and there seemed to be no additional seats for the stowaway.
“Nothing is of better significance than issues of security and safety,” a Delta spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “That’s why Delta is conducting an exhaustive investigation of what might have occurred and can work collaboratively with different aviation stakeholders and regulation enforcement to that finish.”
CNN has reached out to the FBI and Charles de Gaulle Airport.