American Airlines mechanic accused of sabotage

An American Airlines mechanic has appeared in federal court on a sabotage charge after being accused of disabling a navigation system before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport (MIA) with 150 people on board, earlier this summer. According to a criminal complaint filed, the mechanic, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, has been charged with “willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft,” according to The Miami Herald. The reason, according to the criminal report, was that Alani was upset due to stalled union contract negotiations, between American Airlines and its mechanics unions, which had already reached a boiling