An aircraft mechanic has been charge with tampering with an American Airlines airplane before a flight of 150 passengers was scheduled to take off .
TheMiami Heraldreports that American Airline employee Abdul - Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was hold on Thursday for allegedly disenable a navigation system .
A criminal complaint affidavit file in federal tourist court — cited by Miami Herald andAssociated Press — states that Alani admitted in an interview he intentionally damaged the organization in an endeavour to collect overtime defrayal , as he had been struggling financially due to dillydally contract bridge negotiations between the mechanics ’ wedlock and American Airlines .
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The complaint reportedly submit that on July 17 pilots received an error alert as flying 2834 was develop to take off from Miami International Airport , and the flight was strike down . During workaday maintenance following the incident , a mechanic discovered a tube under the cockpit had been blocked with operose foam . According to the complaint , Alani used the foam textile to block a thermionic tube that leads from outside of the aircraft to the air data mental faculty that chase speed and other data point . The Miami Herald noted that if the aeroplane had taken off , the system would not have receive any data and fender would have been forced to fly the airplane manually .
American Airlines said in a command partake with Gizmodo that after flight flight 2834 returned to the logic gate , passengers boarded a unlike escape for Nassau , Bahamas . “ At the clock time of the incident , the aircraft was take away out of serve , maintenance was performed and after an inspection to see it was dependable the aircraft was take back to service , ” the American Airlines statement read . “ American instantly notified federal law enforcement who took over the investigation with our full cooperation . ”
Air marshals reportedly reviewed surveillance footage that showed someone , who allegedly resemble Alani and had his same hobble , exit a fomite , draw near the aircraft , and access a share of the aeroplane that holds the navigation system .
According to the affidavit , cited by Miami Herald , Alani told the marshal “ his intention was not to cause impairment to the aircraft or its passenger , ” and he meddle with the system “ in rules of order to cause a delay or have the flight canceled in expectancy of obtaining overtime workplace . ”
A spokesperson for the US Attorney ’s post in the Southern District of Floridatold CNNthat Alani is expected to make his first judicature appearing on Friday .
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