Update on stowaway who flew from New York to Paris without a boarding pass

Investigators say they still don't know how a woman managed to get through security checkpoints and onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass on Tuesday night. Lilia Luciano spoke with a passenger on that flight, who says there was a moment when he knew something wasn't right.

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[woodyhuband]

So the update is that nobody knows anything yet🤔

[innocentnemesis]

I’m sure they know how the stowaway did it, but don’t want to give anyone else any ideas

[arddel]

"Only" 80 people bypassed the travel document podium?? Like how is that not zero?

[kking]

From the sound of it, this lady has done this before. She just got caught this time.

[Dabeachguy]

Update: We can’t say without it making us look bad.

[Onlythenarrowroad]

what about the boarding pass that gets scanned when you’re entering the plane? TSA is at fault but so are the gate personnel.

[greatedges]

Of course this makes one wonder why bathrooms aren't checked as a matter of routine once passengers are seated, but before take-off.

[yvrrtw]

Perhaps she works for one of the duty free stores in the airport and can easily get airside via the staff entrance without a boarding pass? It is common in the US for duty free purchases to be delivered to the aircraft door of international flights (to prevent domestic passengers from purchasing duty free). Maybe after she delivered the duty free purchases she slip onto the aircraft while the flight attendants were not watching?

[darrylnelson]

How are you going hide in the lavatory for an international flight?

[jimtastic]

More non-news from CBS: this "update" told us nothing.

[meddyven]

Delta is sooo full of it, not knowing how the stowaway got on board. All they have to do is review gate camera footage. The gate agents were not doing there jobs, and MUST BE FIRED- IMMEDIATELY!

[joebaillar]

I am genuinely blown away the amount of coverage this is getting.

[sharonmiott]

It looks 👀 like an inside job to me. How can anyone, with all of supposed security in many airports, get past many security checkpoints and then hide in the plane’s ✈️ lavatory??? Something’s very fishy I’d have to say.

[OddMavis]

Wow the nerve one must have to even try this. I’d be too scared lol

[eduardorivera]

so whats the point of taking our shoes off when someone without a ticket can get pass thru security so easily lol

[JamesChenisKing]

Just 80 people? That’s like 1 ever 4 days.

[fpilot]

There was over 80 times a terrorist could have gotten through Thousands Sitting that's so sad for aviation and the unassuming public.

[raymonddavis]

So how is it an update if you still have no answers?

[jacquiandp-dog]

Why bother with this story when you have no details? What is the point?

[nodatastored]

She must not know, that she is guilty in France and has the burden of proving her innocence not the state