On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen operatives of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization hijacked four passenger planes on the East Coast. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). ...
Profile: Maria Rodriguez, a victim of American Airlines Flight 587 crash in New YorkBOB EDWARDS
An American Airlines flight attendant new hire was caught snoozing (supposedly for a few moments) on a training flight while properly seated in a passenger seat. A working crewmember photographed the trainee and sent it in to management. As withthe two United flight...
American Airlines released a statement, which read: "We are aware that our crew members, unfortunately, fell victim to a crime while en route to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) on March 16. Our security team is in close contact with local law enforcement and have acted quickly t...
Vizio was founded in 2002, two years after CEO William Wang survived the crash of Singapore Airlines Flight 006 — the pilots attempted to take off using the wrong runway and collided with construction equipment, killing 83 people. Wang took time to reflect and close down his other businesses,...
The imagined threat apparently mitigated by closed-circuit television was often gendered. Whereas the suburban housewife was envisioned as the chief operator of her own closed-circuit system, newspaper articles regularly pictured the female apartment-dweller as the potential victim of urban crime, requir...
Airlines have minimum height requirements for flight attendants because they must store bags in overhead bins and operate safety equipment. On July 16, Northwest Airlines was served with a suit charging that its requirement that attendants be at least 5 feet 2 inches tall discriminates against Asia...
Flight from Justice; EXCLUSIVE AMERICAN LAWYER REFUSES TO RETURN TO STAND TRIAL FOR SMASH THAT LEFT VICTIM IN HOSPITAL FOR THREE MONTHS
The phone American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III allegedly used to record girls in the bathroom was taped under the toilet seat.(Federal lawsuit) In light of multiple news reports and backlash of victim blaming, American Airlines walked back the...