A Southwest Airlines flight attendant filed a lawsuit against the airline after she claims she entered the cockpit and saw an iPad showing live footage from the plane’s bathroom during a flight.
, negligence, invasion of privacy, and sexual harassment in 2017, after she claims she entered the cockpit and saw an iPad showing live footage from the plane’s bathroom during a flight. In the two years since the complaint was filed, the flight attendant claims she has been harassed and subjected to increased drug and alcohol tests, monitoring, and performance audits despite “exemplary” records.
The lawsuit alleges that all of the employees involved in the official complaint have faced retaliation from Southwest. This includes Renee Steinaker, the flight attendant who witnessed the iPad, the other flight attendants who reported the incident with her, as well as her husband, who is also a Southwest flight attendant. from Pittsburgh, PA to Phoenix, AZ.
According to court documents, Steinaker told the other flight attendants what she saw and showed them the picture of the iPad. When the flight landed, she and the other crew members filed a written incident report to Southwest asking the airline to seize the iPad and save the cockpit voice recording from the flight. Steinaker’s lawyer, Ronald Goldman, said to. The complaint alleges that both Graham and Russell left the plane immediately after it landed, violating the airline’s protocol.
“In my opinion, they have treated it as some sort of joke or a prank between frat boys,” Goldman said of in an interview with BuzzFeed News. “I have no indication that they have taken this as seriously as it needed to be.”
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