A woman boarded a Delta flight out of Orlando without an ID or a boarding pass, and authorities are shocked and trying to find out how she did it.
According to the police, the woman was asked to show her boarding pass when the staff found she was sitting in another passenger’s seat.
Several Delta employees, including the pilot, tried to get her to leave the seat, but she wouldn’t agree.
“She said very bluntly, ‘I’m not moving,'” Jenni Clemons, the passenger whose seat was taken by the woman, told WFTV.
The woman claimed she had thrown out her boarding pass, police said.
“Who knows where I threw it out? I just threw it out as soon as I got on the plane,” the woman said, according to a video recording of the incident obtained by WESH.
The woman was also unable to show an official ID and tried to show a selfie instead.
“Ma’am, that’s not a government-issued ID. That’s a photo,” a flight attendant said to the woman in the recording.
“Well, this is just as good,” the woman said.
“No, ma’am, it’s not just as good,” the flight attendant replied.
According to the police, she was removed from the flight. All the other passengers on the plane had to be screened by security again, and the flight got delayed for nearly three hours.
After leaving the plane, the woman said to the police that she didn’t have official identification. She agreed to be escorted out of the airport by police.
Police are now investigating the incident with help from the FBI, how the woman managed to get on the plane without an ID or a boarding pass.
A Transportation Security Administration spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the woman had gone through TSA screening.
A spokesperson for Delta Air Lines apologized to the passengers on the flight in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
“Safety and security is always our top priority,” the Delta spokesperson added.
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