American Airlines has replaced its legal team handling a Texas lawsuit after a filing this week blamed a 9-year-old Texas girl for allegedly being secretly...
FILE - In this photo provided by the law firm Lewis & Llewellyn LLP, an iPhone is taped to the back of a toilet seat on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Boston, Sept. 2, 2023. Estes Carter Thompson III, an American Airlines flight attendant, pleaded not guilty Monday, May 20, 2024, on charges of trying to secretly video record a 14-year-old female passenger using an airplane bathroom last September.
A 14-year-old girl and her family also filed a lawsuit against American and Thompson, after their daughter took a photo of the cellphone taped to a toilet seat lid with stickers only crew members would have. The incident occurred in September when the girl and her family were traveling from Charlotte to Boston. She discovered the phone after she had already used the toilet.and one count of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor, according to the Department of Justice.
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