“Thirteen flight attendants have filed a complaint against United Airlines after they were fired for refusing to fly when they discovered threatening drawings on their airplane.
On July 14, 2014, the flight attendants found the words “BYE BYE” along with two faces, one they deemed sinister, traced in oil in on the plane’s tail, reports the LA Times. At the time, the crew said the markings constituted a threat to the airplane and requested extra security measures. According to their complaint, the airline refused to honor the request, accused the flight attendants of insubordination and fired them.” *
Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies; http://www.twitter.com/BenMank77), Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report; http://www.twitter.com/RubinReport), and John Iadarola (TYT University; http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) discuss.
*Read more here from http://time.com/3659297/flight-attendants-fired/
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The bigger problem from my perspective isn’t what the drawings were or what they might mean but that somebody had unauthorized access in order to draw them and united didn’t find out who it was.
This is absolutely ridiculous, can’t believe things like this still happen in this day and age.
Regarding the company’s spokesperson: That comment she ade is exactly what every customer contact person is to say. NEVER give any hint about anything that the company had or had not done was an angle for probably lawsuits or making customers change their minds about using the specific company’s service.
As to the text and the drawings on the plane:
This indicates someone had access to it unviewed and had time and intent to do something. These drawings were clearly made to create some sort of reaction, so the point that they make a further step of putting any explosive charge or something along those lines not necessarily more or less possible.
An action like it should absolutely cause not only a complete, deep search of the aircraft, but a change in accessibilty for persons when on the ground.