American Airlines claims 9-year-old 'should have known' she was being recorded in airplane bathroom
American Airlines is trying to distance itself from a controversial statement in a legal document responding to a civil lawsuit against the company and one of its flight attendants, who is accused of secretly recording five girls in airplane bathrooms.
Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was indicted last month in connection with an incident that happened on a Boston-bound American Airlines flight late last summer.
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Federal prosecutors said that on Sept. 2, 2023, Thompson video-recorded or attempted to surreptitiously video-record a 14-year-old female passenger with a cellphone as she used the aircraft lavatory while he was working as a flight attendant onboard American Airlines Flight 1441 from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport.
As a result of an investigation into that incident, prosecutors said videos of four additional girls using aircraft lavatories were found on Thompson's iCloud account that were recorded between January 2023 and August 2023. Authorities said those four girls were 7, 9, 11 and 14 years old.
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