Stowaway on New York-to-Paris flight claims it wasn’t her first attempt

Svetlana Dali, 57, told investigators she had tried to travel for free at several US airports by sneaking into secure areas

A woman who evaded security to be a stowaway on a New York-to-Paris flight in November claims she had previously tried to sneak into secure areas of other US airports in a bid to travel without a ticket, a prosecutor said on on Friday.

Svetlana Dali, 57, told investigators that she had tried to travel for free at several domestic airports, assistant US attorney Brooke Theodora said at a bail hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, as she described concerns by the government that Dali might flee while awaiting trial on a stowaway charge.