The Woman Who Flew to Europe Twice Without a Ticket!

On November 26, 2024, two days before Thanksgiving, a 57-year-old woman with no ticket and no passport walked through security at JFK Airport and onto Delta flight 264 to Paris. Her name is Svetlana Dali. This video follows what the airport cameras, passengers' phones and the court file show, up to the second flight that officials say she took in February 2026. Not known: whether she has been charged over the Milan flight, and where she is now. In September 2026 a source told Courthouse News she was believed to still be in Italy. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:01 Terminal Four 2:29 No seat 4:05 Asylum 5:09 Not every day 6:58 One purpose 8:30 Gate C74 SOURCES 1. Criminal complaint, U.S. v. Dali (E.D.N.Y.), Dec 5, 2024 2. Government sentencing letter, Jul 8, 2025 3. Brief for the appellant, No. 25-1773 (2d Cir.), Dec 3, 2025 4. CNN, Nov 27, 2024 5. CNN, Dec 4, 2024 6. CNN, Dec 6, 2024 7. New York Post, Dec 6, 2024 8. ABC News, Dec 17, 2024 9. ABC News, May 7, 2025 10. Courthouse News, May 21, 2025 11. Associated Press, May 22, 2025 12. ABC News, May 22, 2025 13. ABC News, Jul 10, 2025 14. Associated Press, Jul 10, 2025 15. CNN, Feb 26, 2026 16. NBC New York, Feb 26, 2026 17. NBC News, Feb 26, 2026 18. CBS New York, Feb 26, 2026 19. Associated Press, Feb 26, 2026 20. The Washington Times, Feb 26, 2026 21. Il Giorno, Feb 27, 2026 22. Courthouse News, Sep 16, 2026 PICTURES AND SOUND Everything on screen is real. Airport surveillance video: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, shown at her trial (via Inside Edition). FBI interview video: trial exhibit (via NBC News). Passenger videos: Jairam Dookoo (via WFAA), Rob Jackson (via TODAY), Gary Treichler (via Storyful). News video of December 6, 2024 (via 11Alive) and of December 4, 2024 (WABC-TV). Photo on flight 264: U.S. Department of Justice. Gate video and photo of February 2026: obtained by NBC News. Booking photo: Niagara County Sheriff's Office. TSA checkpoint video: TSA (public domain). Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0: Ajay Suresh, Billie Grace Ward. CC BY 3.0: Simon Halary. CC BY 4.0: 4300streetcar. CC BY-SA 2.0: Ken Lund, Mathieu Marquer. CC BY-SA 3.0: Quahadi, aismallard, Lasse Fuss, Lionel Allorge, Kristoferb, Daniel Case, King of Hearts. CC BY-SA 4.0: François GOGLINS, Kidfly182, Another Believer, DaHuzyBru, Famartin, Ardfern, Raimond Spekking. CC0: Syced, Oleg Yunakov. Public domain: TSA, Benutzer:Hecki, Jim.henderson, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Full list: pinned comment. Faces of airline staff at the gate are blurred. The TSA checkpoint video is not from that night. Maps: U.S. Census Bureau and Natural Earth (public domain). Narration (AI voice) and music: ElevenLabs. Svetlana Dali was convicted of the Paris flight in May 2025. Statements about the February 2026 flight and about Bradley Airport come from officials and court filings; no court has ruled on them. Her own lawyers describe her belief that she is being poisoned as a delusion. #truestory #airport #stowaway