Thirteen flight attendants hope a lawsuit against United Airlines (1) _______ get their jobs back. They were fired for refusing to fly after seeing a threatening note on the plane.
On July 14, 2014, Grace Lam and 12 other flight attendants, all (2) _______ had been on the job at least 17 years, were preparing United Airlines Flight 869 when they learned graffiti had been discovered on the bottom of the plane. The flight (3) ______ scheduled to fly from San Francisco to Hong Kong. Two faces and the words "BYE BYE" were scribbled in oil along the tail section, nearly 30 feet off the ground. The crew said they understood the message (4) ______ a serious threat 4 months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
But (5) _______ their 26-page complaint, United Airlines refused to deplane Flight 869, and the ground crew examined only the emergency power unit near the drawings, and said it was a "joke". The flight attendants refused to fly without a full security sweep, and the trip was canceled (6) _______ United had no crew. In October, the airline dismissed (7) _______ 13 flight attendants for disobedience.
"It's a moral obligation to do what they did," said the flight attendants' attorney. "The airline (8) _______ got the passengers off the plane and done a security sweep of the plane." United told CBS News, "Our safety and maintenance teams appropriately investigated and decided (9) _______ was no security threat. They considered the aircraft entirely safe to fly."
"I don't regret anything," Lam said. "If this (10) _______ again, I would do the same thing." The 13 flight attendants are asking United to take them back. They are also seeking compensatory damages.