Flight Attendant Pleads Not Guilty to Attempting to Record Teen Girl in Airplane Bathroom

An iPhone is taped to the back of a toilet seat on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Boston, on Sept. 2, 2023. Lewis & Llewellyn LLP via AP, File

BOSTON—An American Airlines flight attendant who authorities say tried to secretly record video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom last September on Monday pleaded not guilty to two counts in federal court in Boston.

Estes Carter Thompson III was indicted last month on one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of images of child sexual abuse depicting a prepubescent minor.