News of the second Delta stowaway comes after a Russian woman was caught stowing away on a flight from the United States to France in November.

An unticketed airline passenger boarded a flight from Seattle to Honolulu earlier this week -- only to be apprehended as the aircraft taxied out.

A Hawaii-bound Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was delayed over two hours on Christmas Eve when a stowaway was discovered by flight attendants just before takeoff, prompting the pilot to make a U-turn on the runway and return to the gate.