A male flight attendant working at JetStar is being investigated by the company for accusations of hunting down a teenager using details from passenger records. The flight attendant found the 15-year old girl on Facebook and sent her several messages after a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne last month.

The girl did not give out her name, but the flight attendant looked her up on Facebook using details from her records and sent her several friend requests within a few hours from the flight. The girl’s mother is said to have complained to the airline about this violation of privacy.

“He’s accessing the names of passengers, particularly my daughters who are underage, and then he’s using that information to contact them. I find that really disturbing,” the mother told ABC.

She says that the flight attendant still sends her daughter messages, asking why she didn’t respond to his friend request. She also expressed her concerns about other underage passengers that might have been the victim of the man.

“I am just worried about – particularly during the school holidays with teenagers flying all over the country on their own – that maybe there’s been some impressionable girls who have said ‘an older flight attendant, we’ll add him’”.

“And I don’t know where he’s going with this, you know. If the girls had added him, would he then say, ‘let’s meet?’”

A JetStar spokesman said the airline is investigating the complaint and are interviewing their employee today about the issue.

Jetstar management are expeditiously looking into the matter at question,” Jetstar spokesman, Simon Westaway, said. (via ABC)

“We are viewing the allegations as serious but it’s important that we get all the information together and ensure that we’re dealing with the facts of the matter.”