Svetlana Dali cleared security at JFK Airport in a lane for airline staff before making it on to a Delta flight to Paris, court documents say.

A woman who snuck aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris was charged in federal court last week and then released without bail.

The stowaway, a woman aged between 55 and 60 who is both a U.S. green card and a Russian passport holder, successfully passed through a physical security screening checkpoint by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on her way to the departure gate.