Woman sues American Airlines for outrageous sexual assault on flight to New Jersey

Carla Sinclair

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A woman who says she was sexually assaulted on an American Airlines flight is now suing the company for "failing to promptly intervene when the assault occurred."

The lawsuit states that the woman, from New Jersey, fell asleep on a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina to Newark on August 26, 2022, when the gentlema…