India, Dec. 27 -- A stowaway was discovered on a Delta flight bound for Hawaii from Seattle on Christmas Eve, causing a two-hour delay. The passenger, whose name has not been released, made it through TSA screening without a boarding pass and was discovered by flight attendants just minutes before takeoff. The situation forced the pilot to return to the gate.

Delta Air Lines Flight 487 was preparing for takeoff from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Honolulu on Tuesday when a passenger was found without a boarding pass. The unticketed person went through a TSA screening checkpoint the evening before the flight. But the next day, the person "gained access to the loading bridge without a scanned ticket at the gate," according to airp...