American Airlines flight attendant from Charlotte filmed minors in bathrooms aboard flights, US feds say

An iPhone is taped to the back of a toilet seat on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte to Boston, on Sept 2, 2023. On Thursday, Jan 18, 2024, police arrested Thompson, saying he allegedly surreptitiously recorded, or tried to record, a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September. — Lewis & Llewellyn LLP via AP, File

Federal agents arrested an American Airlines flight attendant from Charlotte on Thursday, accused of trying to video-record a 14-year-old girl as she used a bathroom aboard a Charlotte-to-Boston flight on Sept 2.

Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, was charged with attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor, according to a news release by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.