NEW YORK On Monday, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted a Russian lady who was detained after stowing away on a trip from New York to Paris.
The 57-year-old Svetlana Dali was charged with stowaway, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of five years in jail.
A week after she was discovered on a Delta Air Lines flight on November 26 on route from JFK International Airport in New York to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, she was brought back to the United States and detained in early December.
When she was released on bail in New York, she ripped off a GPS monitoring device and attempted to enter Canada, according to authorities, and was caught again in Buffalo on December 16 after being returned to the United States. She has been detained at the federal Brooklyn Detention Center since the second arrest.
On Monday, her court-appointed attorney declined to comment.
Dali’s arrest was one of the recent security lapses at airports across the country. People have been discovered dead after hiding in airplane wheel wells on many instances in the last month. Furthermore, in November and December, Dali was one of two stowaways apprehended on separate planes. Additionally, as a jet taxied in Boston last week, a passenger opened an emergency door.
The margin of safety in air travel is being eroded, according to experts, by a lack of air traffic controllers, antiquated plane-tracking technology, and other issues. However, other experts also point out that the last fatal commercial jet tragedy in the US was in 2009, and that more than 3 million people travel safely every day.
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