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A woman was [found / founded] hiding on an airplane from New York to Paris. She flew [as / was] a stowaway - a person who gets onto a plane without [paying / paid] . She secretly got onto the plane without airport [stuff / staff] seeing her. The woman had a Russian passport and was around 60 years [age / old] . She [bored / boarded] the Delta Air Lines aircraft at JFK International Airport in New York. She managed to get [passed / past] many security checks [to / for] board the plane. She had no boarding pass. Police say she hid [on / in] the plane's toilets throughout the seven-hour flight. She was discovered when a flight attendant noticed the woman was making frequent, long trips to [different / difference] toilets on the airplane.

The woman is now [being / been] held by police in Paris. Airline officials tried to fly her [forward / back] to New York on Saturday. However, she caused a [disturb / disturbance] while the plane was on the [runaway / runway] waiting to take off. A man who sat near her on the plane as it waited [to / at] depart from Paris spoke [to / at] CNN. He said the woman looked very worried. He said she kept [repeating / repeated] : "I do not want to go back to the USA. Only a judge can make me go back." Investigators are [current / currently] looking into how she got on the plane in New York. A Delta spokesperson said: "Nothing is of greater [important / importance] than matters of safety and security." He said the airline would work [hard / hardly] to find out what happened.

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