The similar passenger who was found stowing away on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier within the week turned unruly aboard a returning flight on Saturday, delaying the airplane’s departure, an aviation official stated.
Flight 265 to John F. Kennedy International Airport took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris greater than two hours after it left the gate on Saturday afternoon, in accordance with the monitoring web site FlightConscious.
Morgan Durrant, a consultant for Delta, stated the delay was attributable to “an unruly buyer.” The passenger was faraway from the flight by the French authorities, he stated.
The similar passenger boarded Flight 264 to Paris from Kennedy International as a stowaway on Tuesday, the aviation official accustomed to the episode stated.
The passenger acquired on that flight by bypassing two identification verification and boarding standing stations, stated a consultant for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, or T.S.A.
Police officers boarded Flight 264 when it landed at Charles de Gaulle on Wednesday, one of many passengers, Rob Jackson, later advised The New York Times.
Mr. Jackson stated he overheard a flight attendant telling one other crew member {that a} lady had been hopping from one toilet to a different all through the flight with out ever going to a seat.
The Saturday incident on Flight 265 from Paris to New York was reported earlier by CBS News.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy Airport, referred inquiries concerning the Saturday flight to the T.S.A. and Delta. The T.S.A. and the F.B.I. declined to remark, and referred inquiries to the authorities at Charles de Gaulle, which didn’t reply to requests for remark.
