The Russian lady accused of sneaking onto a Delta Air Strains flight from New York to Paris has been charged with knowingly and deliberately secreting herself aboard an airplane.
Svetlana Dali, 57, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday after returning to New York. She made her first court docket look Thursday.
“On or about November 26, 2024, the defendant Svetlana Dali snuck onto Delta Airways flight DL264 at JFK with no boarding go and flew as a stowaway to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris,” in response to the legal grievance obtained by ABC Information.
In her first look, the choose issued a brief order of detention till 2 p.m. Friday so she will attempt to give you a bail package deal and a verifiable residence.
She didn’t enter a plea.
Surveillance footage from Nov. 26 confirmed Dali arriving at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport and trying to get in line at a Transportation Safety Administration checkpoint. She was turned away as a result of she was unable to point out a boarding go, the grievance mentioned.
A couple of minutes later, Dali efficiently accessed the TSA line “by coming into by a particular lane for airline staff masked by a big Air Europa flight crew,” the grievance mentioned. Dali was screened and boarded the airplane with out presenting a boarding go.
“Delta brokers, who had been busy serving to ticketed passengers board, didn’t cease her or ask her to current a boarding go earlier than she boarded the airplane,” the grievance mentioned.
Svetlana Dali, the Delta Airways stowaway who flew from JFK Worldwide Airport in New York to Charles-de-Gaulle Airport in Paris on Nov. 26, 2024, was recognized by her daughter and ex-husband in December.
Svetlana Dali/Fb
By the point the crew realized Dali didn’t have a seat, the airplane was on its strategy to France.
“Earlier than the flight landed, Delta staff notified French regulation enforcement that Dali was on the airplane as a stowaway,” the grievance said.
Throughout an interview with the FBI upon her return, Dali allegedly admitted to flying as a stowaway. She allegedly said she didn’t have a airplane ticket and that she deliberately evaded TSA safety officers and Delta staff so she might journey with out shopping for one.
Dali admitted the surveillance pictures depicted her, in response to the grievance. She additionally said she knew her conduct was unlawful.
Lower than every week earlier than the incident, Dali filed a civil lawsuit in opposition to the FBI, Pennsylvania State Police and different authorities, claiming she was offered by the Russian Federation to her ex-husband for $20,000.
The lawsuit claims she was abused and poisoned.
Dali filed the lawsuit herself and the allegations are handwritten.
