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American Airlines is ever expanding its resume, which includes earning record-breaking fines from the FAA, and serious computer glitches. The latest and greatest achievement of this fine establishment is losing a corpse for 4 days. American Airlines was entrusted by Miguel Olaya to ship the remains of his deceased wife to Ecuador for funeral services.  When Mr. Olaya arrived in Ecuador, he was informed by the carrier, that they were not able to locate his wife’s remains. What’s worse, is that 4 days later when the corpse was recovered, it was badly decomposed, because it had not been properly refrigerated. It was discovered the someone at AA had typed the wrong airport code when processing the body, resulting in the body being shipped to Guatemala, instead of Ecuador. Keep up the good work, American!

American Airlines, the first carrier to start charging for checked baggage, and the owner of a defunct computer system that left hundreds grounded, and others without luggage, earlier this year, will now be slapped with a huge fine by the FAA. According to the WSJ, the FAA is imposing $7.1 Million in fines on the airline for “allegedly violating employee drug- and alcohol-testing procedures and knowingly flying airplanes that broke maintenance regulations.” Lets hope that they personnel that failed the drug tests were the ones who screwed up the computer system, not the ones flying the planes. The fine that the FAA is proposing, would be of of it’s largest, ever. The WSJ reports that the FAA estimates “in total, the FAA said American flew passengers on 58 flights in aircraft that weren’t fit for service.” This doesn’t really come as a surprise, given the portion of the fleet that was grounded in March of this year, while all of the wiring in the 300 MD-80 landing gear had to be re-done. Keep up the good work, American. If the fuel prices don’t kill you, the bullet wound in your foot might.