A Texas man was arrested in Salt Lake City on Sunday after he boarded a Delta Air Lines flight without a ticket by using a photo he had taken of another passenger’s boarding pass while they were not looking, according to court documents. The man, Wicliff Yves Fleurizard, 26, faces one felony count of stowaways on vessels or aircraft, according to a complaint filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Utah. He was being held at the Salt Lake County Metro Jail, according to the Salt Lake City Police Department. After boarding a Delta flight bound for Austin, Texas, on Sunday, Mr. Fleurizard went to the lavatory at the front of the plane, and stayed in there until the flight had completely boarded and the doors were secured, according to the federal complaint. Fleurizard then made his way toward the back of the plane, and he went into a lavatory there, according to court records. When he came out, a flight attendant noticed that there were no open seats just as the plane was about to taxi to the runway, court records show. The flight attendant asked Mr. Fleurizard where his seat was, and he said it was 21F, which was already taken, the complaint states. After flight attendants couldn’t find Fleurizard on their manifest, they realized he wasn’t authorized to be on the flight, and the plane returned to the gate, according to the complaint. Fleurizard told the police that he had been on a snowboarding trip in Park City, Utah, and that he needed to go home to see his family, according to the complaint. He said that he had been given a Southwest Airlines “buddy pass” by a friend, the complaint said. Fleurizard told the police that he had tried to get on a 3 p.m. Southwest flight on Saturday, but that the flight was full, according to court documents. He then tried to fly home on a 6 a.m. Southwest flight on Sunday, he said, but that flight was also full, according to court documents. The TSA said on Wednesday that Fleurizard had been screened by security at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Sunday without any issues, using a photo ID and boarding pass. Surveillance footage from Sunday showed that Fleurizard was taking photos of the phones of several passengers in a Delta Air Lines boarding area while they weren’t looking, according to the complaint. The footage then showed Fleurizard using his phone to board the Delta flight. <br/>
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The flag carrier KLM acted illegally when it claimed customers could “fly sustainably”, a Dutch court has ruled, in a victory for climate activists relying on European consumer protection regulations to combat “greenwashing”. It is the latest in a series of rulings covering everything from Swedish “net zero” milk, German “climate neutral” heating oil and Austrian Airlines’ “carbon-neutral” flights, which have all fallen foul of fair advertising rules in various jurisdictions across Europe. French energy company TotalEnergies is fighting to defend its claim to be aiming to hit net zero emissions by 2050. KLM had painted an “overly rosy picture” of the effects of sustainable aviation fuel or reforestation projects, which customers were given the opportunity to pay for alongside flights, the Amsterdam court said on Wednesday. The airline industry, which is responsible for at least 2% of global CO₂ emissions and up to 5 per cent when the release of other gases and vapour is included, has been increasingly facing challenges over its climate impact in Europe, which is the fastest warming continent. KLM’s claim to be committed to the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement was among the statements deemed by the court to be “misleading and therefore unlawful”. “This judgment is nothing short of a wake-up call for highly polluting industries and companies that try to sell the image of commitment to the Paris climate goals without having the plans to get there,” said Johnny White, a lawyer at Client Earth, which supported the lawsuit brought by campaign groups Fossielvrij and Reclame Fossielvrij against KLM. The KLM ruling could inspire green campaign groups to pursue cases under consumer law in other jurisdictions, White said, because a prohibition on misleading commercial statements to consumers is found “all over the world” including the US, UK and Australia. KLM, which stopped running the ads in question before the ruling, must pay Fossielvrij’s costs and convey its efforts to cut emissions “honestly and concretely” in future, the court said. “We consider awareness and communication about sustainability goals, activities and dilemmas essential,” the airline said, adding that it was “studying” the ruling.<br/>
Two years after a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet crashed on a domestic flight in China, killing all 132 people on board, accident investigators indicated Wednesday that they have not yet determined the cause. An update issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on the eve of the second anniversary of the crash shed little new light on it. It largely reiterated earlier findings that everything appeared to have been normal with the plane and its crew, and that weather conditions were fine. “No faults or abnormalities in aircraft systems, airframe structures, engines, etc., were found before take off," the report said. “The qualifications of the relevant operation and support personnel ... were in line with requirements and the facilities and equipment were in normal working order.” The China Eastern flight was flying from the city of Kunming to the city of Guangzhou when it went into a nosedive at 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) and slammed into a mountainside. The crew reported no problems before losing contact with air traffic control. The civil aviation administration said a technical team will continue to investigate the cause of the crash.<br/>