Originally Posted by
graraps
I was on an UX flight today, and before departure my seatmate got (politely) reprimanded by the purser (who was called by the other FA) for recording images of the inside of the plane with his video camera. He was asked to delete what he had recorded. He did comply without a fuss- he seemed rather sheepish in general, to the point of looking scared by my occasional snoring sounds when half-asleep! The door was still open and mobile phone usage is explicitly allowed until door closure so I can only infer they asked him to delete it for privacy reasons.
Were the FAs in the right? Why/why not?
You might be better off posting this in Travel Safety and Security. Just a thought. Then again, the paranoid conspiracy theorists might derail your thread entirely.
There is no legal justification for the FA to ask the passenger to delete the footage. The FA has absolutely zero control over what gets filmed in the plane.
There was a story about a month ago about some grandmother on jetblue who was arrested on the ground after refusing to delete video footage taken in-flight of a fight between to other passengers. I'm kicking myself because I cannot find the thread. I cannot remember the exact outcome, but I recall that she took the to court and it was a PR nightmare for jetblue.