American Airlines mechanic accused of attempted sabotage of flight with 150 on board

When you endanger the lives of 150 people your intentions are irrelevant. Lock his ass up.

This idiot is claiming contract dispute? That's flat out terrorism. Lock him up for a long long time.

BS. Attempted manslaughter. Send a message that this won't be tolerated. He knew what he was doing was wrong. Doesn't matter that he didn't intend on hurting anyone. If he did, then it would be murder. Scum.

Years back one of the very first things we were told when starting our A&E training was you as a mechanic if you fail to do your work proplerly will be held responsible for your actions and prosecuted it was somewhere stated back then in the regs. Kind of says it all I carried that thought when I moved to being a heavy duty mechanic.

As if the Airlines are not having enough problems already this guy should be prosecuted for attempted manslaughter!

this man is ignorant and selfish,pure and smple..you do not do anything to the workings ,mechanical or otherwise, of an aircraft,under the idea you want overtime,or you are helping your unions cause..that tactic not only damages any issues going forward to settle a contract dispute (and i believe from what I have read, the mechanics union was already under investigation for slowdowns and the like),but it shows true criminal intent..that man was playing with the lives of 150 people..his name of course,immediately calls to mind a terrorist affiliation,but that is because since 9/11 most people have been programmed to think or feel that way..the article does not state anything other than he wanted more overtime..thank goodness his actions did not cause a serious accident..he most definitely will be fired,but he will now be subjected to federal prosecution..

Lt's hear it for the design system that looked for these types of problems, the light that lite up perfectly, the pilots that immediately returned to the ramp, and the other mechanics that immediately found the problem, identified it as sabotage, and reported it. People working together can stop a lot of bad things from happening.

He really, really really picked the wrong day to stop sniffling glue.

Don’t think I’ve ever been able to actually say that huffing paint would have been a wiser choice during work hours.

Terrorism! May he rot in jail!

Careful walk around ..

Haha, got ya idiot. Nice try, good thing these pilots didn't take off. Off to Federal prison.

I'm glad the issue was caught before something horrible happened to the flight!

Lock him in a room and throw away the room.

Sounds like the kind of antics labor unions performed way back when. But to put lives in possible jeopardy, that's criminal.

Hang him!

That’s not a sabotage but a massive murder attempt. Anyone knows that any apparently simple reason in aviation could lead to catastrophic failure resulting in dead passengers and crew.

Sentence him to life as a crash test dummy.

While I agree the offender should be appropriately punished, this situation does show that a properly designed aircraft won't leave the ground with issues that endanger the flight. The safety features in this case worked the way they were supposed to.

If this guy truly wanted to cause this aircraft to crash he could of picked another system on the aircraft to damage. The circuit he decided to use had built in redundancies that allowed the pilots to abort and return to the gate. Let's not be to quick to condemn. I wonder if his name would of been Bill Jones if we would of jumped to conclusions? My point is let the investigation run it's course and see what we find out. Cheers

Prison for 20 years then deportation back to his Muslim country. Join the union there!

crazy, attempted man slaughter is thin. How about premeditated attempted murder? He needs to be fully punished to the max extent of the law. Bravo Zulu to the flight crew noticing an issue, and the ground crew discovering the problem. Its really terrorism that failed, thank God.

He must have known that the ADM would generate an error, and the correct procedure would be to abort the take off. He is an avionics technician, after all. This is one of the few things he could do that would not show up on pre flight checks.
I hope the incident is fully investigated, including checking to see whether he has anything on his computer or email, but just because he has a foreign name doesn't automatically mean he is a terrorist.

That is a terror crime open Guantanamo prison again plz, and lifetime without parrol

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/opinions/mechanic-sabotage-airplane-abend/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7433959/American-Airlines-mechanic-accused-sabotaging-Florida-plane-150-passengers-board.html

This isn't "attempted" sabotage, it was ACTUAL sabotage. The only thing that was "attempted" was the murder of the passengers and crew on board. And that is what he should be charged with - 150 times. I don't care if he says his intentions were different, he actually sabotaged an airliner in a manner that could have reasonably led to the deaths of everyone on board, as well as some on the ground, had the plane either become airborne with faulty data or had an accident during the aborted takeoff. Prison for life.

As if the airlines didn't have enough trouble with Episcopalians....

Science lets us build airplanes; religion makes us fly them into buildings.

His name tells me everything I need to know.

Yet another Islamic fundamentalist attempting to destroy our society.....

If we can't trust veterans, or FAA certifications, can we still fly in the future ?

Maybe they are overworked or I do not fully appreciate the realities of flying passenger jets, but isn't the 'walkround' meant to be to identify things like loose pitots or blocked holes in tubes? I know its a big plane buit I see crew members looking them over before a flight.

Wow. At first i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I thought maybe he had intentionally left a bag behind or something because he was fed up with his job and the media was blowing it out of proportion. But what he did is pretty much the worst thing he could have possibly done. Lock this guy up for life. What a shame about his name, it will just reinforce a stereotype.