American Airlines has suspended an employee after a video showed an altercation on one of its planes involving crew, several passengers and a crying woman carrying a young child.
Key points:
- Incident started over a dispute as to whether the woman could bring her stroller on the flight, American Airlines said
- A video shows an American Airlines employee challenging a passenger to “hit him”
- It comes two weeks after United Airlines came under fire for removing a 69-year-old passenger
An American Airlines employee violently took a stroller from the woman, hitting her with it and just missing her child, Facebook user Surain Adyanthaya said in a post accompanying the video he put on the site on Friday.
American Airlines said it was investigating the incident that happened before Friday’s Flight 591 from San Francisco to Dallas took off, airline spokeswoman Leslie Scott said.
The incident started over a dispute as to whether the woman could bring her stroller on the flight, Ms Scott said.
Less than two weeks ago, 69-year-old doctor David Dao was hospitalised after Chicago aviation police dragged him from a United Airlines plane sparking international outrage and a public relations nightmare for the carrier.
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