Stowaways sneak onto cross-country Delta flight | FOX 5 News

Up to six people snuck onto a Los Angeles-bound Delta flight in Atlanta last week, according to sources. The FBI confirms it is now investigating the security breach.
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[@woop2080]

Hey, as long as their toothpaste was 3 ounces, we dont have to worry about nothing

[@rhondaknight3704]

😂😂

[@lowandslow3939]

No one was arrested? What? If it was known during the flight, why weren’t they arrested upon deplaning?

[@lewisbale1]

Exactly

[@PliskinYT]

They're probably on a no fly list now, so guess who's walking or driving across the country to get home?

[@ArronBushnell-rn4xz]

​@@PliskinYTIf it's the usual suspects then no the complete opposite will happen. 😂

[@judebrenner4559]

Were they “Invaders?😡

[@waterlife.1905]

Guessing it is some brand new undocumented "citizens" who came into the country in a similar sketchy fashion. Pretty much look for this to be the newest thing and it isn't going away. These people are welcomed into this country though.

[@texas66]

Nevermind how they got on the plane, how did they get past TSA to the "secure" side of the terminal?

[@gingercat7925]

I am not sure about this particular incident, but the man who took the photo of another man's boarding pass had a ticket for a different flight.

[@visax8550]

The TSA doesn’t care. As long as they didn’t have any water, shaving cream, toothpaste etc.

[@sweetipie1995]

@@visax8550not buying it the tsa officer did not believe it was me 🤦🏻‍♀️after staring at me observed ID i was even pat down separately inside curtain as if i could be a threat then they let me go damn i couldve miss my flight☠️

[@ArronBushnell-rn4xz]

Look at the demographic that goes for TSA jobs and then you'll answer your own question. 😂

[@teresa.tells.it.like.it.is.2]

​@@sweetipie1995 Yeah! I usually get similar treatment. But I've only been strip searched once.

[@PliskinYT]

Imagine getting bumped off your flight because a stowaway took your seat

[@jdsjstudio]

Exactly!

[@InfiniteCrust]

squatters rights

[@aliciadaas2323]

A test for something sinister?

[@flightattendantsteven]

Wait, they weren't arrested? If a passenger smokes on an aircraft or drinks their own alcohol on board they can be arrested. But for stowing away they get away with it? I don't understand.

[@johnlansing2902]

Illegals ?

[@abeshura]

Gotta be someone working with them on the inside

[@angeldelvalle120]

💯

[@sweetipie1995]

Not sure if it airport employees they can lose their jobs

[@rholmst]

Sounds like a rehearsal. Same thing happened leading up to 9-11. James Woods was even on one of the rehearsal flights and reported it to the FBI, and they ignored him.

[@ceceb6264]

The fbi probably already knew

[@peaches1206]

Surprised that there were any seats available after everyone boarded. This flight is usually sold out.

[@NYCLight]

Why did they wait to arrive to LAX? Why didn’t return to ATL? Isn’t that an immediate red-flag/breach of security?

[@traveler320ak7]

They still had to get through security prior to boarding the flight.

[@johnp139]

How so?

[@spriggsvid]

I was on this flight. My first visit ever to LA. We were so confused because they took so many people off.

[@choleluvstoshop8134]

A group of six is brazen so seems likely this is happening much more often with individuals than airlines and authorities are aware.

[@ellierivera5519]

👍👍👍. Not the first!…& they aren’t gonna talk about it..

[@barrylee3604]

But isn't their id tied to their books with TSA? I thought that why they checked id at the check point to verify that you are supposed to have business past the check point

[@queenbee4350]

Stop making sense and bringing up good points Barry.

[@sweetipie1995]

Yes they are i thought the same first step at checkpoint is Identification and driver license

[@terrellstewart4071]

Here we go sounds like an Inside job is being setup.

[@charlest8153]

And I have to take my shoes and belt off and make sure every liquid is 2 oz. and these people are allowed to get away with this. W T actual F is going on in this country.

[@tonyrussi7777]

what does Mayor Pete, Mr. Transportation have to say about this, LOL.

[@simonstevenson6686]

Sir I need to see your boarding pass and ID.

[@pogmothoin1342]

I'm an illegal alien I don't need a stinking boarding pass or ID, Thanks Joe.

[@sareptasweetie1978]

My airport experiences must be different because I've always had my id scanned and I was under the impression that was matched with a valid ticket. Sounds like weird

[@MsJonesy]

So they arrested the last guy but not the new group of stowaways??? This problem will most likely continue since they only arrest certain people. The group will try again next week.

[@ArronBushnell-rn4xz]

No description of the suspects? Must be the usual ones then. 😂

[@Dana19443]

Wow talk about SAFE TRAVELS 🤯

[@H_H_____]

Meanwhile, we cannot take fingernails clippers and liquid cosmetics on board, while 6 people are fraudulently getting on board and traveling wherever they want to.

[@amzarnacht6710]

Oh, great... this will put even *MORE* mud into the system. It's already onerous as hell trying to fly which is why I haven't bothered to fly since 2002 when I discovered I could drive from Texas Tyler (TYR) to Atlanta (ATL) in almost the same amount of time it took me to fly there after all of the checks, security checks, boarding, waiting, flying, waiting, deboarding and waiting for a connecting flight, boarding, waiting even longer, flying, deplaning, waiting for luggage, and finally getting out of the airport. That took about 9 hours. Time to drive from TYR to ATL... 10.5 hrs.

[@ellierivera5519]

VA. To FL I drive…not flying. If they pay me…..

[@Torbikini]

Digital boarding passes should either adopt NFC technology or have a barcode that changes every 30 seconds and expires. Maybe this will push the industry to make changes. For paper ones they could print text telling people to be discrete and not show their barcode to anyone besides airline/airport officials.

[@bluetheta]

MLB and concerts uses the changing barcodes that are sync'd with the scanners.

[@bodhi1462]

Just go back to paper boarding passes. Tech isn't always better

[@minutelizard3576]

The Utah guy took a pic of a paper boarding pass.

[@todayslist37737]

If pictures were not accepted he would have to have it printed out

[@sweetipie1995]

@@minutelizard3576wait so there must been red flag with 2 people with the same name holding boarding pass🤔🤦🏻‍♀️how they didnt catch

[@minutelizard3576]

@todayslist37737 most airlines do both, every week I may use my phone one trip or have it printed at the desk for the next.

[@CDTILL1471]

So these guys made it all the way to their destination. This is an issue with airline complacency and attention to detail. I was handed someone else’s ticked at the ticket gate on an international flight leaving CLT. Although I was booked for the flight already, my seat wasn’t assigned and I had to see the agent before boarding. I took the ticket, didn’t notice the name, and went to the seat assigned. While seated, someone else told me that they we also assigned to that seat so we looked at the ticket and realized that the agent had printed that members ticket again and handed it to me. Had that seat been empty, no one would have known the difference. Was it a big deal, no because I was actually booked on that flight and eventually was issued my actual ticket and assigned seat, but it does raise concerns with airline agent complacency. Perhaps these stowaways have had similar experiences as the one I had and are using that procedural weakness to their advantage. Who knows who’s flying around on American domestic flights right now. We need to tighten up, especially with the complacent Biden administration leaving our borders open. Our country is being infiltrated with people from non allied nations. It’s very concerning.

[@lindap.p.1337]

It is not safe for anyone.

[@bluetheta]

It simple, use the same technology that is in electronic event tickets (MLB, concerts are good examples) to render screenshots useless.

[@marvawright4874]

This was organized crime. No 6 people just happened to show up and stowaway in plain sight on the same flight.

[@YAZZYUTUBE]

Technology is the biggest security risk. Allowing people to print boarding passes at home, making kiosks available to print boarding passes and sending digital boarding passes to electronic devices makes the entire security process a joke. Return to the old way where you arrive at the airport, wait in line to get a paper boarding card then proceed through security. This world is too fked up to make something as important, security wise, as boarding an aircraft easy or convenient.

[@adityaelayavalli353]

or better do the singapore or doha model...have an extra security gate at each gate

[@minhluu5953]

So no 1 is arrested, but they caught the stowaway. I am scratching my head thinking about this 1.

[@Marc-ys9og]

NO ONE ARRESTED THIS SHOULD BE A FELONY WITH A YEAR MIN SENTENCE AND A BAN FROM FLYING

[@cristianperez1120]

Very simple all that needs to be done is that we all make a pin with our boarding pass when your about to enter the plane u enter your pin that gets varified

[@inhocsignovinces1081]

One of the stowaways was listed as Mayorkas’ nephew.

[@jodieshannon5033]

Better fix this PROBLEM

[@LEVELGAZANOW]

Geez, another Delta jet with stowaways?

[@corpnupe85]

delta is too busy focusing on the dei crap. They need to be focusing on operating an airline company.

[@deirdresheridan8223]

Very concerning.

[@williammc3183]

Investigators are scrambling to find out if this has been happening for a while...

[@davidhughes3154]

They slipped through the cracks of the t s a. They obviously weren't carrying much cash that could be seized by Civil asset forfeiture. How anyone gets through the Atlanta? Airport with more than five hundred dollars on them is a miracle.

[@catherinelee3298]

Scary

[@votpavel]

so it was a terrorist?

[@johnp139]

No

[@ellie8602]

Please realize that this was a test of the system….we will see more of this as traffickers begin to use these tactics

[@vickieguthrie8483]

Likely inside job. Employee at the gate lets them through then someone on the crew adjusts the count. I know of an incident where a major airline pilot’s flight and his girlfriend was working at the gate. She was stowed away. Then had a merry time once landed.

[@dma124]

Where? When? Which airline?

[@user-tx3uj3tq7x]

Oh gee who do such things?

[@Gurn_Blanston]

Fatherless Democrats.

[@ysykes489]

Even with a boarding pass, you have to show proof of ID to TSA. How did 6 people get past TSA to do this?? There's more to this story. I think someone on the inside was in on this. Its beyond scary to think how easy this occurred.

[@draggonsgate]

What the hell? Simple solution, check ID's at the gate when boarding. MY question is how did they get thru TSA?

[@crabstick250]

No one arrested!!?? WTF

[@sweetipie1995]

2024 and beyond you will hear more and more “they made no arrests” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️get used to it smh🙄🙄

[@KevinCovington5453]

AGAIN!?!

[@user-mm5yd1en6j]

The gate agents have to spend so much time and attention policing the corporate luggage policies that they have run out of bandwidth for confirming that the tickets are real.

[@joellops2611]

They’re aren’t “corporate baggage policies” they’re FAA regulations

[@carlton2361]

Never get foreign ppl.

[@00amandahugnkiss00]

who said they were foreign

[@TheSouthernMensch]

Not the almighty Delta letting this happen.

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

No arrest. That’s LA for you.

[@rhondaknight3704]

That’s what happens when we humans’ jobs are replaced by A I, and computers. And when we are told to do everything on line.

[@JakeSDN]

You should only be able to use a boarding pass once. Any further use should require airline attendant assistance. This way if someone uses a different person’s boarding pass, when the owner of the boarding pass uses identification, you will know something went wrong.

[@walteropanasets9178]

TSA on the job

[@vintagemotorcyclerepair4052]

Nice job, airlines and FAA!

[@jasonmurdoch9936]

Illegals dont get screened,just don't see the big deal

[@virginagonzales8188]

Wow 😮 Not good at all

[@teresa.tells.it.like.it.is.2]

The way screening is done needs revamped anyway! Work with the airlines for preboarding checks at luggage check-in. Issue a second boarding pass connected to your Real I.D. If we cannot stop/these types of boarders, why bother with having the TSA?

[@zzizahacallar]

As much plane tickets are this shouldn't be happening

[@joshuasteel2109]

Air travel is the worst form of travel there is known to man anyway

[@AjaySivaram-by8vl]

Package of some pics

[@bigedslobotomy]

Notice how there were no pictures of the stowaways. Either they were minorities, or “immigrants.”

[@tjr4459]

How do you even get pass TSA security without a boarding pass?

[@johnp139]

Past

[@tjr4459]

@@johnp139 no pass. “Past” according to the dictionary is gone in time and no longer existing.

[@dlc2112dlc]

I've got crap hanging out of my ears. Why am I talking? I just wanted to have crap hanging out of my ears. Now I do.

[@thesink5723]

Yeah , ohhh cooperating , well travel as usual !! Where's Pete B ??

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

This is simple fare evasion. You don't see reactions like this on Amtrak, commuter passenger rail, busses, and ferries. This wouldn't be a problem if airlines restarted the concept of cheap standby tickets like they had prior to 2001's famous incident...

[@Melissa404Vee]

Y'all doing wayyyyyyyy too much fraud at this point...🙄🙄

[@margaretWestminster]

Where are the people that commited this crime, did they just dissappear after landing ??

[@sapphiiretv]

I actually got onto a flight that had ticket scanner down! The gate agent just let us on by seat number. No checking! Just seat and sequence number. Just a okay board😂😂😂😂 I literally said damn I shouldn’t have paid for the flight. I could get on free! Everybody laughed! The gate agent said lol you’re right because my system won’t load.

[@ohwhataday7171]

And they were not arrested getting a free flight to L.A. nice. Now that this event was publicized, it will be rampant across all airlines because there were no consequences. But you better not smoke in flight in the restrooms! You’ll surely get fined and arrested for that! SMH

[@eddylloyd7413]

⚖️???

[@ronhat-nx6yq]

Exactly who were these people?????

[@capt.kenbaker5452]

They should have been arrested when they got off the plane !!!!!!!!! The software should have caught the duplication immediately just like passwords from new to old !!

[@pipegarmich]

Wasn’t there a dupe seat?

[@SpcT0rres]

Taylor Fingers?

[@terrellstewart4071]

When I scan my ticket and the ticket had a period in my name but no period on my I.d card I had to wait while they corrected the problem. so how can someone remake a ticket and scan it if the name isnt the same as the i.d card or the computer that shows the name of the person seat etc. This sounds like an inside job. For something to occur in the future I will avoid delta thanks for the heads up.

[@mrz6480]

Fraudulent PTAs were a problem for the airline I worked for back in the day

[@fretsward2225]

Not safe for you as a passenger, yet they can pour across the border and not an eyebrow is raised?

[@matriksist]

Sometimes technology is no longer helpful, it becomes the culprit.

[@ricardomagnificent]

Let's just open the border to anyone who wants to come in, maybe that will help.

[@soflodoug]

How are they getting past the tsa checkpoint without a valid boarding pass?

[@Metamophisis]

😮

[@teresa.tells.it.like.it.is.2]

For everyone wondering about the "officials" stance on this: I don't think they are paying much attention to U.S. citizens' overall safety.🥺🤔Look at how they are using taxpayer dollars for "boneheaded" investigations.🕵️‍♀️🤗 Hey! But don't quote me on it! 😊🙄👀

[@danielgriffin8132]

Really look at our southern border that's unsafe. They live in your city

[@Ezbpete]

The airlines can move to facial recognition/retina scanning (like CLEAR uses) to prevent fraudulent boarding passes.

[@BlownMacTruck]

CLEAR is an absolute joke.

[@Ezbpete]

@@BlownMacTruckI fly every other week, so I get flagged for an ID check every time I use CLEAR, but it still saves me mass time in security lines at the busy airports I fly in and out of. I don’t pay extra for it since it’s an AMEX perk.

[@BlownMacTruck]

@@Ezbpete CLEAR is a joke. It’s never in the airport security checks where it’s needed, and it saves little to NEGATIVE time when it is. Not to mention it’s complete security theater. I have multiple benefits that cover CLEAR for free but it’s actually less than worthless. The sooner this company goes under the better.

[@frickpoo6644]

Democrats will just buy you a ticket. Why sneek?

[@mvkugler]

Folks this is not new. Techniques change technology creates its own challenges because it’s something that hasn’t been done quite that way. The methodology of catching these people is simple. But I’m not gonna tell you how to do it in this form because then I’m telling others how they can get away with it. Also, they have a lot of people out there that want the answers without paying for it. I’m not thinking anything criminal but I’m I am thinking that we need to stop , retiring people that have huge knowledge base in the idea that we can save money. Without telling you how this is the answer.

[@toomignon]

What do you want to bet somebody knows one of the tsa officers responsible for checking id/boarding passes.

[@zcvxs]

I was so surprised when i flew to vegas from LA . .return trip..no one asked for i.d and when i got to gate no one asked for boarding pass...

[@nedsackmann2215]

Show us the democrats

[@hedleygrainge2864]

Democrats love flying for free😮

[@thomasmixson7064]

"Free" fare is one thing, but as a pilot, 1200 - 1400 lbs unaccounted for in weight & balance calculations is UNACCEPYABLE!!!!

[@user-dc4uo2sh1t]

Joe Biden your vacation time is over get back to work. Lol.

[@jimmylieb5225]

trump stinks💩! I mean he really really stinks💩💩!!🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@dma124]

Biden isn’t in court facing 88 criminal charges and a Pecker on his butt.

[@Gurn_Blanston]

Why no physical description of the fatherless Democrats involved?

[@joellops2611]

Why you meat riding the Democrats

[@jimmylieb5225]

FDJT. traitor to 🇺🇸