A girl who evaded safety to be a stowaway on a New York-to-Paris flight final month claims she’d tried to sneak into safe areas of different U.S. airports earlier than in a bid to journey and not using a ticket, a prosecutor mentioned Friday.

Svetlana Dali, 57, advised investigators that she had tried to journey totally free at a number of home airports, Assistant U.S. Legal professional Brooke Theodora mentioned at a bail listening to as she described considerations by the federal government that Dali would possibly flee whereas awaiting trial on a stowaway cost.

Theodora mentioned these makes an attempt included one final February at Miami Worldwide Airport, the place Dali was turned away as she tried to sneak right into a safe space by going by way of a customs processing space to succeed in departing flights.

The prosecutor made the remarks as she urged that bail situations be strict sufficient to make sure Dali, an unemployed Russian lady with everlasting U.S. residency, would attend her courtroom hearings.

Dali, who wore a brown jailhouse uniform and entered a courtroom limping with a cane, spoke to her lawyer by way of a Russian interpreter. Earlier, she’d been handled and launched from a hospital for remedy of an undisclosed nature. The hospital’s identification card was on her wrist.

U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Joseph A. Marutollo agreed to launch Dali with digital monitoring and strict pretrial situations, together with a ban from all airports and a requirement that she reside on the Philadelphia residence of a person she met at church features and undergo a curfew.

He additionally advised her that she should bear any psychological well being remedy required by the pretrial providers division, an arm of Brooklyn federal courtroom.

Her court-appointed lawyer, Michael Schneider, mentioned that his shopper, who has no legal historical past after being a everlasting resident of the U.S. for greater than a decade, was concerned in “what might have been an aberrant act in a sure psychological well being state that is not going to occur sooner or later.”

At a listening to Thursday, Schneider mentioned the cost towards her was minor and that her offense was akin to leaping a turnstile to enter the town’s subway system.

Theodora objected to the comparability at Friday’s listening to, saying the offense was severe and raised “very vital nationwide safety considerations and really vital public safety dangers for apparent causes.”

Schneider mentioned Friday in courtroom that the stowaway cost was unlikely to end in a jail sentence “until she does one thing silly.”

Based on a legal grievance, Dali flew to Paris as a stowaway on a Delta Air Traces flight on Nov. 26 earlier than returning to Kennedy Worldwide Airport on Wednesday.

The doc mentioned she snuck previous Transportation Safety Administration officers by hiding amid a flight crew getting into a particular lane for airline staff as she underwent safety screening however by no means needed to show a ticket.

She then dodged airline staff scanning tickets to board a flight sure for Charles de Gaulle Airport, solely to be found aboard the aircraft illegally as soon as it was within the air, the grievance says.

When the flight arrived in Paris on Nov. 27, French regulation enforcement authorities met her on the gate and detained her earlier than she entered customs, it says.

Delta Air Traces has mentioned in a press release {that a} evaluation concluded that its safety infrastructure was sound and that “deviation from commonplace procedures is the basis reason behind this occasion.”

It mentioned it was taking measures to make sure such a breach doesn’t happen once more.

“Nothing is of higher significance than security and safety,” the airline mentioned.