American Airlines retreats after blaming girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in a lavatory

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American Airlines retreats after blaming girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in a lavatory
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A former flight attendant is accused of luring girls to use the lavatory after taping his iPhone to the toilet seat.

has distanced itself from a court filing in which the carrier said a 9-year-old girl should have noticed there was a camera taped to the seat of an airplane toilet.

The 9-year-old's family flew from Texas to California on American last year and sued the airline after the FBI told them that videos of the girl were found on the flight attendant's phone.An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly video record a 14-year-old female passenger using an airplane bathroom last September is being held in custody pending trial.

An American spokesperson said Thursday that outside lawyers working for the company "made an error in this filing".

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