Lawsuit alleges carrier took no action after April 2024 police contact despite 2020 settlement

A United Airlines flight attendant claims the carrier failed to stop a pilot from distributing her intimate images despite prior warnings.

Lisa Denson has sued United Airlines in Colorado federal court, painting a disturbing picture of corporate indifference that allegedly allowed a pilot to sexually exploit her for seven years despite the airline's prior experience with nearly identical allegations.

The lawsuit, filed October 28, comes on the heels of pilot Andrew Hill's October 2024 guilty plea to eight felony counts of distributing pornography, plus convictions for sexual extortion and stalking. But Denson's legal action targets her employer, not Hill, arguing the airline had multiple opportunities to intervene and chose not to.

The allegations trace a troubling pattern. Denson and Hill met in 2016 when she worked a flight he was piloting. They began dating, though the suit notes United had no policy governing workplace romances. Over the next five years, Hill allegedly used company-paid hotel rooms during flight layovers to secretly photograph and record Denson, sometimes capturing her undressing out of her United uniform, without her knowledge or consent.

In 2017, Denson says she discovered Hill had been posting intimate images and videos of her on Reddit under the username "TinkGoneWild." She confronted him. He promised to stop and remove everything. She believed him, and...

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