TSA has reviewed JFK airport video as they await return of stowaway from Paris

Authorities in the United States have reviewed airport security footage as they continue to investigate how a woman sneaked on board a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris without a ticket last Tuesday –– one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Authorities in the United States have reviewed airport security footage as they continue to investigate how a woman sneaked on board a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris without a ticket last Tuesday –– one of the busiest travel days of the year. Inspectors from the Transportation Security Administration are preparing a civil case against the stowaway after reviewing airport security video from inside John F. Kennedy International Airport, agency spokesperson Alexa Lopez told CNN. The stowaway, who has been been held in a waiting area at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris since she arrived there last week, is expected to be on a flight back to JFK Tuesday, a Paris airport official told CNN. The passenger will be escorted by six US Marshals, the official said, after she was removed from a previously planned return flight Saturday for causing a disturbance. Inspectors from the TSA are planning to meet the stowaway at JFK when she returns to the States, Lopez said. The stowaway initially slipped past facial recognition ID scanners at the TSA checkpoint undetected, the TSA said, though she did go through baggage screening where officers found two bottles of water. “The TSA will open civil cases against passengers when there’s evidence that procedures may have been violated,” Lopez said. The TSA cannot bring criminal charges, though it can refer them to the Justice Department.