Stowaway who flew from New York to Paris causes disturbance on return flight, remains in France

[Romanos]

A woman who flew as a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier this week remains in France after causing a disturbance on a flight scheduled to take her back to the United States Saturday, according to two law enforcement sources.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/us/delta-stowaway-passenger-return-flight/index.html

 

[Lamb]

HOW can someone be a stowaway in this day and age??? Who failed to watch their post and she got in?

 

[Frankj]

FWIW, no one can stop you from doing anything you want to do if you want to do it badly enough.

 

[tango]

HOW can someone be a stowaway in this day and age??? Who failed to watch their post and she got in?

The last time I flew internationally there were enough checks that it's hard to see how anyone could bypass all of them.

From what I recall the security screening required a boarding pass, then boarding passes were checked upon boarding, then a flight assistant came around and took a headcount. It's easy to see how someone could slip past one of the checks but hard to see how they could defeat all of them and not be spotted until several hours into the flight.