Flight attendant caught for allegedly filming a girl in the plane bathroom

A flight attendant was removed from an American Airlines flight for allegedly trying to film a teenage girl in the bathroom of an aircraft with a cell phone. 

The “potential criminal act” involved a juvenile, a phone and a flight attendant, according to local news outlet WSOC-TV. 

Another passenger on the flight, which departed Charlotte for Boston on Saturday morning, told Boston 25 News that he saw a teenage girl stopped by a male flight attendant on her way to the first class bathroom.

According to the passenger, the flight attendant told the girl to wait because he wanted to wash his hands before collecting trash. “So he went in the bathroom and then she went to the bathroom,” the passenger told Boston 25 News. 

After the girl left the bathroom, the flight attendant went back in. Then the girl’s mother ran up to stop anyone else from going into the bathroom because there was a camera in there.

“We take this matter very seriously and are fully cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation, as safety and security are our highest priorities,” a spokesperson for American Airlines told Paste BN.

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Law enforcement boarded the aircraft upon landing for investigation, according to a statement by the Massachussetts State Police. 

Since crimes that happen mid-flight fall under federal jurisdictionThe investigation is being passed onto federal authorities, and the Massachussetts State Police have no further comment, a spokesperson told Paste BN. The FBI Boston did not respond immediately to request for comment. 

In July, a New York family filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines alleging that the mother and 16-year-old daughter were groped by a man while on a nine-hour flight from New York to Athens, Greece last summer. 

Kathleen Wong is a travel reporter for Paste BN based in Hawaii. You can reach her at kwong@usatoday.com