American Airlines sorry over basketball players theft claim (lawyers, Christmas, accuse)

[Brave New World]

America's Airlines seem to be excelling in customer care this year.

Still it keeps the Lawyers is business.

Originally Posted by BBC

American Airlines has apologised to two professional basketball players who were kicked off a flight after being wrongly accused of theft.

Marquis Teague and Trahson Burrell boarded a plane on Christmas Eve, en route to a game.

But before take off, a flight attendant claimed the men had taken blankets from the first class cabin, and they were forced off the plane.

It later emerged the pair had been given the blankets by passengers.

American Airlines sorry over basketball players theft claim - BBC News

[IDoPhysicsPhD]

You don't think they should be sorry?

[Brave New World]

Originally Posted by IDoPhysicsPhD

You don't think they should be sorry?

I don't think they should have accussed someone of theft in the first place without fully checking all the facts.

The fact they said 'Sorry' does not diminish the humilation of being accussed of theft and publically marched off an aircraft.

[Suburban_Guy]

The most hilarious thing about this incident was one of the assistant coaches, when he initially found out about this incident, tried to play the race card in one of his public tweets (the two players were black).

However, it turned out that the flight attendant that confronted the two was also black.

lol, moron.

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

What has gotten into the airlines lately?

Or have they always been doing pulling this nonsense, but only since they had that man assaulted and hauled off for not giving up his seat are we hearing about it?

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

The most hilarious thing about this incident was one of the assistant coaches, when he initially found out about this incident, tried to play the race card in one of his public tweets (the two players were black).

However, it turned out that the flight attendant that confronted the two was also black.

lol, moron.

People just can't help themselves when it comes to the race card.

[phma]

Originally Posted by No_Recess

People just can't help themselves when it comes to the race card.

It would be nice to see Al Sharpton get involved. Then we could see the dog chase its tail.

[phma]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

I don't think they should have accussed someone of theft in the first place without fully checking all the facts.

The fact they said 'Sorry' does not diminish the humilation of being accussed of theft and publically marched off an aircraft.

They are flight attendants not investigators.

The FBI & DOJ leadership can't even do legitimate investigations or supervise one.

[Loveshiscountry]

So the players said passengers gave them the blankets and the crew decided not to check the story out? Why didn't the passengers who gave it to them step up? Or did they and the crew didn't believe them either? This all sounds strange.

"the players were asked to leave the plane following an argument."
I wonder if the argument escalated and that was the reason?