Amid the Thanksgiving travel rush, a stowaway was discovered Tuesday night onboard a Delta Air Lines flight out of JFK Airport in New York City headed to Paris.

Summary

A stowaway was discovered on a Delta flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Paris on Tuesday.

The individual bypassed the document check podium and gate agent but was screened at a TSA checkpoint, posing no security threat, according to officials.

The person was removed after the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Delta is investigating the breach in coordination with law enforcement, while the FBI is aware of the incident.

Details about the stowaway remain undisclosed. Passengers were briefly held on board during the investigation.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    29 days ago

    The person who boarded the flight bypassed the document check podium and a gate agent, but was fully screened at a security checkpoint at JFK, a TSA spokesperson told ABC News. That means they weren’t carrying any prohibited items and did not pose a security risk, TSA said.

    TSA showing they’re all security theater with this statement. Either they’re admitting that the document check podium isn’t necessary to identify security risks, or they’re trying to assure everyone that they’re enforcing security when they clearly aren’t.