Delta Air Lines refused to transport stowaway to the US, Paris airport official says
The woman, who is a legal resident of the U.S., did not have valid documents to enter France, where she had previously applied for asylum.is a Russian national who did not have valid travel documents to enter the country.
Then, she was due to leave France on a flight at 2:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, a Paris airport official told CNN.She was taken off the flight and put back into police custody and will remain in France temporarily. "She kept on saying 'I do not want to go back to the USA. Only a judge can make me go back to the USA,'" said Gary Treichler, who was on the flight with his family.
"TSA takes any incidents that occur at any of our checkpoints nationwide seriously," Velez said. "TSA will independently review the circumstances of this incident at our travel document checker station at JFK." A Delta spokesperson said in a statement, "Nothing is of greater importance than matters of safety and security. That's why Delta is conducting an exhaustive investigation of what may have occurred and will work collaboratively with other aviation stakeholders and law enforcement to that end."
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