Man arrested after allegedly boarding Delta flight using photo of another passenger’s ticket

A Texas man was arrested after boarding a Delta Air Lines flight in Salt Lake City on Sunday without a ticket, instead using a photo he took of another passenger’s boarding pass while they were not looking, according to court documents.

A Texas man was arrested after boarding a Delta Air Lines flight in Salt Lake City on Sunday without a ticket by using a photo he took of another passenger’s boarding pass while they were not looking, according to court documents. Wicliff Yves Fleurizard, 26, is facing one count of stowing away on a vessel or aircraft, according to a complaint filed in U.S. district court in Utah on Monday. Before the flight was boarded at Salt Lake City International Airport, security footage shows Fleurizard snapping photos of multiple passengers’ phones and boarding passes while they weren’t looking and then using his own phone to board the flight to Austin, Texas, the complaint alleges. Once on the plane, Fleurizard went to the lavatory at the front of the aircraft and spent “a significant amount of time” there while other passengers boarded, the complaint said. “After boarding was complete and just before the aircraft doors were secured, Fleurizard exited the front lavatory and made his way to the back of the aircraft and entered the aft lavatory,” the complaint said. When he exited the bathroom, a flight attendant noticed there were no available seats and approached Fleurizard to assist him, according to the complaint, which noted the plane had already pushed back from the gate and begun taxiing down the runway.