On one of the busiest travel days of the year, security lapses at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport’s largest terminal allowed an unticketed passenger to board a plane to Paris. According to one aviation expert, this should be a “wake-up call” for the airline industry.
Mary Schiavo, an aviation analyst and former inspector general for the US Department of Transportation, stated, “It’s a really big deal and it exposes our vulnerabilities to the world.”
Pictured on a Wednesday trip from Paris back to New York is the stowaway who French authorities have named as Svetlana Dali.
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