U.S. authorities have launched an investigation following the discovery that a flight attendant placed a spy camera in the bathroom of an American Airlines flight. A recently published image online shows the hidden camera allegedly set up to monitor a 14-year-old girl while she was using the bathroom. The girl's family believes their daughter was targeted by the flight attendant during a flight on September 2 from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston. Her father stated, "She is extremely upset, like we are, about the possibility of something like this happening. It's an invasion of her privacy. I think as a teenage girl, she felt embarrassed about being recorded in such an intimate situation as going to the bathroom."
It appears that an iPhone was mounted on the toilet lid in the first-class bathroom, specifically to film the girl, placed behind a note stating that the seat was broken, with the flashlight or camera flash activated. The family said their daughter was waiting in line for the second-class bathroom when a thirty-something flight attendant approached her and told her there was no line for the first-class restroom, leading her there. After another passenger exited that bathroom, the attendant told the girl he needed to use the restroom quickly to wash his hands and pick up trash. When he left, the teenager entered and used the bathroom but noticed the phone and took a picture of it.
Her parents said that after she returned to her seat, the attendant returned to the bathroom. The teenager immediately showed the picture she took to her mother, who initially didn’t understand the story, prompting her daughter to point out the phone. The Massachusetts State Police responded to the incident upon the plane's landing, and federal authorities took over the case. The FBI’s Boston office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts declined to comment on the matter. No arrests related to the case have been announced. The family’s lawyers provided the New York Post with images of their boarding passes, which match American Airlines flight 1441, which authorities have previously confirmed they are investigating for an alleged indecent incident that occurred onboard.
