“It was an honest mistake.”
The pornographic tweet by US Airways that was viewed around the world was “inadvertently included” when tweeting to their customers and won’t lead to an employee’s firing, a spokesman told the Daily News.
“It was an honest mistake. It was in an attempt to flag the tweet as inappropriate,” said spokesman Matt Miller after the photo was allegedly first posted on their wall by an undisclosed Twitter user.
“We captured it, flagged it as inappropriate,” he said.
When the airline then went to reply to customers, however, “unfortunately, the image was inadvertently included,” said Miller.
The X-rated photo, showing a naked woman with a toy plane wedged between her legs, was received by two customers who up until that moment had been fuming about a flight delay.
It was immediately taken down and replaced with a red-faced apology by the airline.
“First and foremost, we apologize,” said Miller again on Tuesday.
“We are in the midst of reviewing our processes but for the most part we have an understanding of what happened and how to ensure how it won’t happen in the future,” he said.
ngolgowski@nydailynews.com
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