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American Airlines made headlines this week for blaming a 9-year-old for negligence after she was secretly filmed by a flight attendant in an airplane bathroom. Now the company is saying that that line of argument, made by its lawyers in a court filing, is 'not representative' of its position and will be corrected. 'Our outside legal counsel retained with our insurance company made an error in this filing,' the airline said in a statement on Wednesday.
American Airlines said at the time that Thompson was no longer employed by the company and that it was cooperating with law enforcement. The family of the 14-year-old sued the airline in December. The 9-year-old girl's family also filed a civil lawsuit in February, saying that they were notified by the FBI that it had found videos and photos of the girl, from a flight that the family took in January 2023, on Thompson's phone.
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