A former American Airlines flight attendant has pleaded guilty to secretly recording video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom and having recordings of four other girls using the lavatories.

Estes Carter Thompson III, a former flight attendant for American Airlines, has pleaded guilty to something truly despicable. Thompson, 37, was facing one count of possession of images of sexual abuse depicting a prepubescent minor as well as one count of attempted sexual exploitation of

A former American Airlines flight attendant has pleaded guilty to filming a teenage girl who was using the airplane bathroom on a Boston-bound flight in 2023 and to having recordings of four other young girls using airplane bathrooms.

On Thompson’s iCloud account, agents found recordings of four other girls in bathrooms on flights, including ones from Charlotte to Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, and from Orlando to Charlotte, according to a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts.

We are pleased to hear that the American Airlines flight attendant who preyed on at least five young girls as they used the airplane bathroom has pled guilty for his depraved crimes,” an attorney for two of the girls said.

Former American Airlines employee Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, also had recordings of four other girls using airplane lavatories.

Former American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III pleaded guilty to two felony charges after he secretly recorded several minors in airplane bathrooms using a hidden phone.