Over Labor Day weekend news reports blew up over an American Airlines flight from Charlotte to Boston where passengers reported a video camera in the lavatory, and it appeared that it might have been placed there by a flight attendant to record a teenage girl.
According to the girl’s family, they were seated in coach but the 14 year old was invited to use the first class lavatory. The crewmember, she said, just wanted to “wash his hands” first. Exiting the lavatory, she says that the flight attendant told her that the seat was broken (but the toilet itself was fine). She went into the lav, and as soon as she came out the flight attendant went back inside.
The family of the girl is suing American Airlines. The airline initially reported that they were working with law enforcement, but the family’s attorney says they have heard nothing from the carrier.
And, it turns out, the girl took a photo of what’s apparently the flight attendant’s iPhone stuck to the toilet in the lavatory with maintenance stickers.
After using the toilet our daughter realized a largely obscured iPhone had been affixed to the back of the toilet seat to record her, and courageously took a picture of this with her own phone. Very specific features on the hidden phone perfectly matched the one subsequently recovered from the flight attendant by law enforcement, and airline representatives confirmed the official stickers used to secure and hide the phone would not have been accessible to anyone other than crew.
Credit: Lewis & Llewellyn LLP
In 2019 came reports that Southwest Airlines pilots spent a flight watching passengers use the lavatory. This is when they were supposed to be flying their plane.
A few months before that a United passenger was caught videotaping women in the lavatory. He was caught because he accidentally recorded himself installing the camera, so when the camera was found his image was on it.
That changes the situation from a potentially hysterical mother to the FA needing to be in federal prison for about 5 years.
In contrast, on a Hawaiian Airlines flight, they didn’t complain for 6 weeks and non-related witnesses said nothing happened and that the teen said everything was ok. The grandparents on the flight weren’t told by the teen at the time.
The FA was probably doing a test run and was trying to eventually get a man to urinate while standing up….unless the FA has a fetish to looking at people’s backs.
Everybody has to understand that phone was there primarily for your safety.
The man taking his own picture installing the phone makes me think of a dumb criminal on Forensic Files. He killed a woman and stole her credit card. He told the store it was his girlfriend. Instead of signing her name he signed his!
Quite apart from the criminal behavior, fire that FA for being too stupid for the job.
Not only is that a privacy violation, but she’s 14 so that’s manufacturing child pornography too, and across state lines.
look into this from various sources (different details from different news outlets), the girl/child should have taken the phone into her possession (and turned it over to Mass State Police/federal authorities), after confronting the FAs, the father said the rickpay wouldn’t raise his eyes, the father should have beaten the living uckingfay hitsay out of the FA the way the father at the Nassar sentencing tried to do – real consequences and true deterrence
https://www.efootage.com/videos/90742/victims-father-shoots-attacker (this video was taken off of you know where because you know why) https://www.wbrz.com/news/gary-plauche-s-1984-airport-slaying-of-son-s-kidnapper-abuser-now-a-book/
What an idiot! Not merely for the obvious reasons, but that iphone setup! LOL! Even the light was on. Ray Charles could have seen that. Not to mention that – even if it worked, 99% of the footage would have been of the back of the girl’s shirt. And, color me surprised that the FA singled out a girl anyhow…..that’s really news worthy.
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What an idiot! Not merely for the obvious reasons, but that iphone setup! LOL! Even the light was on. Ray Charles could have seen that. Not to mention that – even if it worked, 99% of the footage would have been of the back of the girl’s shirt. And, color me surprised that the FA singled out a girl anyhow…..that’s really news worthy.
Without the light it wouldn’t have been able to record much. As it is I think it would give a short but rather intimate look at the person who sat down. They might not have been interested in the specific images, but trading them for stuff they do want.