The 14-year-old was travelling as an unaccompanied minor on an Air Transat flight when she says she was assaulted by the stranger sitting beside her.
Two teens say they were groped by the strangers seated next to them on flights and that the airlines did little to help.A 14-year-old girl who was travelling as an unaccompanied minor on an Air Transat flight earlier this year says she was assaulted by the stranger sitting beside her. Two teens who say they were groped by men sitting next to them on flights say Air Transat and Air Canada did little to help — and in one case blocked her family's efforts to get answers.
She says she told him her age. But two hours into the 10-hour flight things took a dark turn when the stranger propositioned her using crude language asking if she wanted to see his genitals, she says.She says she didn't know how to respond. The man eventually seemed to fall asleep and so did she — until she woke up to him touching her, she says.
Air Transat tells Go Public it launched an "in-depth" internal investigation after the mom complained, and claimed none of the crew members "witnessed nor were made aware" of the incident. It offered to go over the report with the mother, but when she asked for a copy of it ahead of the meeting, Air Transat refused.
Similarly, a 19-year-old says Air Canada was of little help after she reported being sexually assaulted on a flight from Vancouver to Toronto in June. The man denied any wrongdoing and a couple nearby said they didn't see anything. That's when the attendant told her "it's your word against his," she said. The teen says she was confused and upset by both the stranger's assault and the attendant's response."I just felt powerless that something like this could happen to me and nothing can be done because the man is saying that it didn't happen," she said.
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