Seems that American Airlines hasn’t been showing the love to Brazilian customs. This story explains what happened: the 52-year-old (read “old enough to know better”) pilot gave customs officials the finger when he was being photographed, whereupon he was arrested. The rest of his flight crew was denied entry to Brazil, so presumably they had to wAAit until the next flight home.
Here’s the airline’s explAAnation:
“The company apologizes to the Brazilian government, the airport authorities, the police, or anyone else who perceived anything they believed to have been disrespectful,” the airline said in a statement. “The captain and other crew members certainly meant no disrespect.”
Obviously American has found a new job for Don Carty‘s speechwriter, since only a person of vast imagination could construe the international peace sign as “[meaning] no disrespect”.
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