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A woman who stowed away on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier this week remains in France after being boarded on a flight that will take her back to the United States on Saturday, according to two law enforcement agencies should have caused disruptions.

The woman was removed from the scheduled return flight before takeoff in Paris, officials told CNN.

Their flight back to the US still has to be postponed, the sources said.

Before you board the plane, The woman was in a waiting area at Charles de Gaulle airport – known as ZAPI – for people awaiting deportation because she did not meet the requirements to enter Europe, CNN previously reported.

A man aboard the plane waiting to depart Paris told CNN that the deported woman was sitting in the aisle across from him, his wife and their three children.

“She kept saying, ‘I don’t want to go back to the United States.’ “Only a judge can force me to return to the United States,” said Gary Treichler of California.

“She also repeated the Geneva Convention a couple of times, so that showed me that she was wrong,” added Treichler, who shared his cellphone video with CNN showing some of the unrest before the flight.

In the footage, the woman can be seen wearing a pink hat and face mask and asking to be taken off the flight to New York. “Please help me! I don’t want to go to the US,” she screams as a woman next to her tries to hold her back. In other clips from Treichler, several Delta crew members can be seen trying to handle the escalating situation.

Investigators are trying to figure out how this works A woman passed through several security checkpoints at New York’s JFK International Airport on Tuesday and boarded a plane bound for Paris, apparently hiding in the plane’s restrooms during the flight.

According to the Transportation Security Administration, the stowaway did not have a boarding pass but completed a security screening and bypassed two identity verification and boarding status stations to board a Delta Air Lines flight.

The incident occurred on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Almost 2.7 million passengers traveled by plane that day, two days before the Thanksgiving holiday, according to TSA data.

According to a TSA spokesman, the stowaway was not carrying any prohibited items.

Delta said it is cooperating with law enforcement and conducting its own investigation.

“Nothing is more important than issues of safety,” a Delta spokesman said in a statement. “Therefore, Delta is conducting a comprehensive investigation into what may have happened and will work with other aviation stakeholders and law enforcement agencies to this end.”

CNN has contacted the FBI and Customs and Border Protection for further information.

The stowaway is a woman between 55 and 60 years old and holds a Russian passport. According to an airport official in Paris.

If the woman is sent back to the United States, the TSA could impose a civil penalty and New York authorities could arrest her, although they are not currently involved, a federal official familiar with the investigation told CNN. The TSA is conducting its own investigation into the incident, the official noted.

New York real estate agent Rob Jackson was on the Delta flight when the stowaway was discovered and told CNN that passengers were instructed to remain seated after landing so police could board the plane.

“I didn’t actually see the person in question. Apparently she hid in a toilet at the back of the plane as we left JFK,” Jackson said. “The first report to passengers that there was a problem was when we were parked at the gate and they told us all to remain seated as the French police would be boarding the plane to deal with ‘a serious security issue’ to take care of.”

CNN’s Holmes Lybrand, Amanda Jackson, Lex Harvey and Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report.