Video shows a stowaway en route from New York to Paris being removed from a plane after causing a disturbance

Video shows a stowaway en route from New York to Paris being removed from a plane after causing a disturbance

A newly released video shows a woman who secretly sneaked onto a flight from New York to Paris last week and was picked up from a flight back to the US after she started screaming.

In the footage, the woman screams “Please help here!” and “The United States has broken my heart.” The woman was only identified by French border police as a Russian passenger.

Gary Treichler was on Flight 265 from Paris to New York with his family on Saturday and said the woman was getting louder and louder.

“Something caused her to become uncooperative,” he told NBC’s “TODAY” show.

After about 20 minutes, the woman began to calm down, Treichler said. Four armed French police officers and an interpreter were brought on board to assist.

“She was then escorted off the plane,” he said. “Our flight was probably two and a half to three hours late taking off.”

The woman was taken into French custody, a source told NBC News on Sunday.

The woman was denied entry into France after she boarded a Delta flight on Nov. 26 without a boarding pass and bypassed two “identity verification and boarding status stations,” a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said. The flight flew from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport.

She completed a full security clearance, meaning she was not carrying any prohibited items and did not pose a security risk, the TSA said. She was removed from the plane by police when it landed in Paris.

A French border police spokesman said she was refused entry because she did not have a valid travel document or visa. She had a valid US residence permit.

The TSA said Monday that it will initiate a civil case against any passenger if there is evidence that its rules have been violated. TSA will meet the woman at John F. Kennedy International Airport when she returns to the United States

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