American Airlines framed passenger with drugs

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A dream trip for an American Airlines passenger turned into a nightmare when she was wrongfully accused of drug smuggling and spent nearly a week in jail.

Alison Dominguez, traveling with just a carry-on bag, was flying from Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS/MYNN) to Miami (MIA/KMIA) when Customs agents and an airline employee approached her at the gate with a suitcase bearing her name tag.

Inside the suitcase were over 100 bottles of codeine. She claimed she never checked in a bag, but Bahamian authorities arrested her regardless. Her lawsuit alleges that an American Airlines employee intentionally checked in the drug-filled suitcase under her identity, framing her as the smuggler.

Dominguez describes her jail stay as horrific. Sleeping on urine-soaked concrete floors, being denied bathroom access, and even being told she may have been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

American Airlines allegedly did nothing to help, despite clear evidence the bag was checked in "long before" she even arrived at the airport. The airline refuses to accept responsibility or even show compassion she said, stating you can't argue with the evidence. Now, she's suing the airline for negligence, defamation and false imprisonment.

The case raises serious questions: how could an airline employee set up an innocent passenger so easily, and what responsibility should the airline bear for what she endured?