SEATTLE — The TSA and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines are investigating yet another stowaway on a flight.
The plane was headed from Seattle to Hawaii.
The unticketed passenger sneaked on the plane on Christmas Eve.
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Brady Bly’s flight to Honolulu took a turn.
“Nobody knew really what was going on. So we were kind of left in the dark,” Bly told Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach.
Bly said while taxiing they were told of a security breach and returned to the gate.
“It’s kind of scary if somebody could just sneak on the plane like that through two security checks,” Bly said.
The secret stowaway got off the plane with everyone else and port police in Seattle found them hiding in a terminal bathroom.
According to the TSA, the unticketed passenger bypassed the boarding pass and ID check, went through normal screening, then the next day somehow made it past gate agents and onto the flight without documentation.
In a statement to its employees, Delta said that it has, “followed procedures to have an unticketed passenger removed from the flight and then apprehended.”
But Bly still feels unsafe and questions their security.
“I don’t think Delta did everything they could to protect people on the flight. Um, passing, getting by two security breaches. I can understand one maybe, but the second, I don’t think that’s, that’s almost impossible,” he said.
This is the second stowaway to board a Delta flight in recent weeks.
Just before Thanksgiving, a woman who is a Russian national, was caught only after making it all the way to Paris from New York City.
“I think everyone just has to do a better job making sure that people are where they’re supposed to be,” Bly said.
The flight did eventually make it to Hawaii after more than a two hour delay.
The airline has not released the identity of the suspect, but that person was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.
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