NEW YORK (WABC) — French officials tell ABC News that the woman who allegedly snuck onto a Delta Airlines international flight is a Russian national who did not have valid travel documents to enter the country.
The woman, who is a legal resident of the United States, did not have valid documents to enter France, where she had previously applied for asylum.
She was scheduled to be on a flight to the U.S. on Saturday afternoon but French authorities removed her from the aircraft after she started screaming, according to an official.
“We are going to try to send her back again with a French escort,” the official said.
The woman was expected to be accompanied by six US marshals on Tuesday’s flight back to New York, authorities said.
Then, she was due to leave France on a flight at 2:30 p.m. local time (8:30 a.m. ET) Tuesday, a Paris airport official told CNN.
She was onboard the plane when Delta refused to fly her, a Paris airport official has told CNN. She was taken off the flight and put back into police custody and will remain in France temporarily.
The 57-year-old woman got past multiple security checkpoints at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris last week.
Delta Flight 264 took off from JFK Airport and landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris the next day with the stowaway, authorities said.
New video shows personnel attempting to restrain the unruly passenger on November 30.
In the video the woman can be heard saying she does not…
