Russian Woman Takes Flight from New York to Paris Without Ticket or Passport: Faces Up to Five Years in Prison

new york - Russian woman managed to bypass all security checks at the New York airport and board a flight to Paris, where she was subsequently arrested.

The Russian woman, Svetlana Dali, is currently in custody awaiting trial in New York. She is accused of being a stowaway on a flight, a crime that could result in up to five years in prison and the loss of her US residency permit, according to a court spokesperson.

On the evening of Tuesday, November 26, Dali successfully evaded all security checks at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and boarded a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport near Paris, as disclosed by an FBI agent in court.

Without a boarding pass or passport, she apparently blended in with a team of Spanish airline Air Europa and managed to elude the vigilance of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

During the overnight flight from November 26 to 27, Delta Air Lines staff realized that Dali, who had not been assigned a seat and was moving back and forth to the toilets, had entered the plane illegally. The airline alerted the French police, who then arrested her upon disembarking the aircraft.

Dali was denied entry into France and was held at the airport until eventually being flown back to New York on a Delta flight on Wednesday evening. Upon her return, she was questioned by the FBI at the airport and confessed to knowingly traveling as a stowaway, fully aware that it was illegal. The motives behind her actions remain unclear.