The Association of Professional Flight Attendants is urging that the benefit of the doubt be given to a suspended American Airlines employee involved in an altercation with a woman carrying an infant.
The employee allegedly hit the woman with the stroller she brought on the plane, and video posted of the incident’s aftermath has gone viral on social media. The flight attendants union subsequently issued a statement to ABC urging skepticism and caution.
“One, we don’t know all of the facts related to a passenger who became distraught while boarding a plane and therefore neither the company nor the public should rush to judgment,” the association said in a statement Saturday. “Second, it appears another passenger may have threatened a flight attendant with violence, which is a violation of federal law and no small matter. Air rage has become a serious issue on our flights.”
The association argued for the collection of “full facts” about the air rage altercation.
