Biz: American Airlines could pay huge fine for sucking at fixing wires
- $24.2 million the size of the fine American Airlines faces for safety violations that led to the grounding of planes in 2008
- 14,278 flights the number of flights 286 Boeing MD-80s made in violation of a 2006 directive regarding faulty wiring source
- » Will American Airlines pay the full fine? Probably not. See, a similar fine involving Southwest Airlines was cut from $10.2 million to $7.5 million after the airline and the FAA butted heads. That was the biggest fine in airline history until this one.