Jury convicts New York-Paris flight stowaway who slipped past gate agents
May 22, 2025
A woman who was able to sneak onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass last year has been convicted of a stowaway charge. A federal court jury in Brooklyn came back with a verdict on Thursday in the case of Svetlana Dali, a 57-year-old Russian citizen with U.S. residency. Court documents say Dali sneaked past federal security agents and airline gate agents by blending in with other passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in November. She was taken into custody at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. A sentencing date was not set. The guidelines call for up to six months in prison. She has been in custody for five months.
