Thank you for all of the opinions and thoughts so far on this incident.
There is, as I suspected, more to this incident that might shed light on why the pilot said what he did in that announcement.
This is the actual account of what happened, and from the person who filmed it, and once you have read it, I think it is easy to see and understand why this pilot became so frustrated that he went itno so much detail in his announcement.....this was not the first plane that had issues on this specific flight, his patience with AA, its maintenance and the two aircraft given to him to fly that both had technical issues, was being sorely tested....
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Yes, possibly he did say too much but given the problems that he had already faced with the first aircraft and then having a potentially worse problem with the second aircraft, I think his frustration is totally understandable and if AA/AAmaintenance did not like his tone or the content of the announcement, well maybe they need to find out why this pilot was handed two unserviceable aircraft for a long distance, over water flight and perhaps look closer at themselves for the reason for their pilot being so vocal and honest.