The American flew for 20 years on airplanes for free. How did she do it?
Marilyn Hartman told how she managed to fly free planes. She took advantage of the carelessness of the airport staff, but now she faces a prison term.
69-year-old American woman was detained at the Chicago airport. It turned out that the woman had been flying without tickets for 20 years! You might think that Marilyn Hartman is the embodiment of a real fraud, and her story could make a Hollywood film, but there is nothing super-genius in her actions ...
First flight for free - in 2002
For the first time, Marilyn tried to fly for free in 2002 - then the plane was sent to Copenhagen. The second time she flew to Paris, and then to London, Seattle and other cities and countries.
How did she do it? Effortlessly. Marilyn said: “I just followed someone. For example, someone was carrying a blue bag, I followed this person. When I was at the security check, the officers let me through, thinking that I was with this person. "
Marilyn Hartman was first caught and arrested in 2014 while flying to Los Angeles. The judge asked her to refrain from free flights, but less than a year later, the woman took up the old again!
But she was no longer able to act as before. After the first arrest, police officers began to recognize her. Marilyn was repeatedly detained, but soon, for the sake of reliability, electronic surveillance was installed for her.
Marilyn was sent to a psychiatrist. It turned out that she has bipolar disorder. In an interview on the CBS2 television channel, she spoke about a difficult childhood - violence was considered the norm in her, everyone had some kind of mental disabilities.
In the same interview, the stowaway traveler promised that she would no longer accept attempts to fly for free, but was soon caught again at the airport. Now she faces a prison sentence.