American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff

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Originally Posted by luchtzak

I checked flightradar24 data but the aircraft was never on the active runway, only on the taxiway. But that's what the newspapers made of it ;-)

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f...a2834#2153622b

Right, and then there's this:

. . . the pilots would have had to operate the aircraft manually because the ADM system would not have received any computer data.

But you can't expect every general assignment reporter and editor to understand technical details that might apply to any story they cover.

Relations between AA and its mechanics must be very bad indeed. Still, there aren't many people in airline maintenance jobs who would even consider doing something like this, no matter how frustrated they might be with management.